§ MR. M'CARTANI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland with reference to the practice under which national teachers in Ireland have been for a considerable period compelled to buy reading books and all other school books from the Dublin stores of the Commissioners of National Education, whether he is aware that for sometime the teachers have been allowed to buy all their school books, except the reading books, from shops throughout the country, thereby encouraging the sale of books throughout the country districts; whether it is in contemplation to 85 prepare new and more drastic regulations; and if a copy of the proposed regulations for the purchase of school books will be laid upon the Table of this House before such regulations are finally adopted by the Board of Commissioners?
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURThis Question has been referred to the Board of National Education, by whom it will be considered at their meeting to-morrow.