Mr. T. M. HEALYI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, do the Government intend to do anything to fulfil the promises made by his predecessor and himself in regard to removing the Catholic grievance in regard to the Erasmus Smith Schools, owing to the judicial difference between Lord Justice Fitzgibbon and the right hon. Mr. Justice O'Brien; and what is the total annual value of this foundation which the Catholics have been shut out from?
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR IRELANDMy right hon. Friend the Chief Secretary for Ireland has requested me to say that no change has taken place since last year of a nature which would lead him to believe that legislation on the subject of the Erasmus Smith endowments in the direction indicated would no longer be opposed. He regrets, therefore, that he cannot add anything to his replies of last Session. The gross income of the Governors of these Schools is stated to have been for the year ended 1st May, 1896, the sum of £7,618 17s. 10d.