§ MR. WILLIAM O'BRIEN (Cork)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he can make any announcement as to the 625 application for a grant of £8,000 to the Munster Agricultural Institute, for the purpose of encouraging instruction in dairy management and agriculture?
MR. JOHN MORLEYI regret that I am not yet in a position to make a final announcement on the application for a further grant of public money to the Munster Dairy School and Agricultural Institute, as the necessary inquiries are still proceeding. I hope, however, to be in a position to come to a decision at an early date, whereupon the Governors of the Institute shall be at once communicated with.
§ CAPTAIN DONELAN (Cork, E.)asked whether the right hon. Gentleman was aware that the Report presented to Parliament last year showed that the sum granted by the Danish Government in 1893 for dairy management and agriculture was £35,000, in addition to £48,000 granted for buildings in 1892; and the amount of public money expended in England for the same purpose in 1893 was £73,000, while the total grant in aid of agriculture to Ireland during the same period was but £9,500?
MR. J. MORLEYsaid, he had not verified the figures, but he was aware of the general fact of the large contributions made from public money in Denmark in aid of agriculture, and he heartily wished it were in his power to make a similar contribution to Ireland.