§ MR. FOLEY (Galway, Connemara)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, with regard to the facts that the Boards of National and Intermediate Education and the Senate of the Royal University are so constituted as to include a Catholic element in the proportion of one half, that the higher paid appointments in these Institutions follow the same rule, and that this proportion is maintained by the free action of the Executive Government, there being no statutory provision in this respect, whether he is aware that the Governing Body and office bearers of Queen's College, Galway, are, and have been for some time, exclusively Protestant; and whether the Executive will make appointments in Galway on the same principle that obtains in the Institutions named above, on the ground that a distinct Ministerial pledge was given in this House that the patronage of the Crown would be so exercised as to secure, if possible, the services of Catholics in the appointments to the Queen's College, Galway?
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURI beg to refer the hon. Gentleman to an answer given by me to a similar question put by the hon. Member for Galway (Mr. Pinkerton) in July, 1888. No change has since taken place in the personnel of the College.