HC Deb 29 March 1897 vol 47 c1537
MR. T. M. HEALY (Louth, N.)

I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland if he can explain why, in the Estimates for 1897 for the Trish Model Schools Department, there is omitted the statement prefixed to this grant in former years that this department is designed to exhibit the best mode of conducting National Schools, and that it affords teachers in training an opportunity of practising the art of teaching daily under their several trainers; have these statements ceased to be correct; and, what is the present situation of the Trish Model School Department.

THE CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND (Mr. GERALD BALFOUR,) Leeds, Central

The condition of the Model Schools being under the consideration of a Committee of the Board of National Education, the Commissioners deemed it proper, when sending forward the Estimates for 1897–8, to omit the statement prefixed to the Estimates of previous years. The omission of the statement was not intended in any way to prejudge the Report of the Committee.