MR. FIELDI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ire- 26 land whether pupils attending National schools under the control of the Commissioners of Education, or attending any of the model schools, pay school fees; and if any request has been made to pupils in these schools to pay fees?
MR. J. MORLEYThe Education Act of 1892 provides that where the average school fee in 1891 was in excess of 6s. such excess might be charged to the pupils, but such excess only. In 1,071 schools there was such excess, and in all these cases the excess fee may be charged. As a matter of fact it is charged in a great number of such schools, including all the model schools but one. The number of schools to which the Act applies is 8,234, and of these school fees have been entirely abolished in 7,163.