MR. FIELDI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is prepared to state in detailed terms the amendments which he requires in the Public Libraries (Ireland) Act, which passed this House last year, with the object of enabling the Hill to be promoted without delay?
MR. J. MORLEYIt would be impracticable to state in detailed terms, in reply to this question, the amendments which this Bill would require if introduced again in the same form in which it appeared last Session; but I may inform my hon. Friend that, in my opinion, a Bill to carry out the objects aimed at should be framed as nearly as possible on the lines of the Public Libraries Act, 1892 (the English Act), and the main points in which the Bill of last Session differed from that Act have already been pointed out to my hon. Friend.