§ MR. DAVITTI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, whether any application has been received by the Treasury from Mr. Thomas O'Donoghue, late teacher under the National Board of Education in Ireland, for arrears of fee grant due to him for the years 1893, 1894, and 1895; and, whether steps will be taken to investigate this claim, and to satisfy it if it is found to be a just one.
§ SIR M. HICKS-BEACHAn application of the kind referred to in the Question has been made; but it is part of the general subject, and can only be treated as such. I stated last year the conditions under which I was prepared to make a proposal to parliament; but, so far from those conditions having been fulfilled, the teachers are at present in litigation with the Government about the new rules.