MR. FIELDI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, whether the Government will introduce, early this Session, an amendment to the Compulsory Education Act, providing that the fund shall be forthcoming to put the Act in force?
§ DR. KENNY (Dublin, College Green)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, whether it is his intention to introduce this Session a Bill to render operative and extend the compulsory Clauses of the Irish Education Act of 1892?
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURA draft I Bill is being prepared dealing with the defects of the Act in question, but it would be useless to introduce it unless the Government had reason to believe that its provisions would be regarded as non-contentious.