§ DR. AMBROSEI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether, in view of the large proportion of the people who speak Irish in Achill, County Mayo, and of the difficulty that Irish-speaking children have in acquiring their education in the National schools, he will take the necessary steps with the Education Department to have this grievance remedied, by seeing that the children in such schools are taught to read and write in Irish.
§ MR. ATKINSON (for Mr. G. W. BALFOUR)Extensive alterations in the school programme are contemplated in the scheme of reform which it is proposed to carry out in the system of primary education in Ireland, but the question how far it is expedient to make any change in the direction of extending the study of the Irish language in National schools would seem to be a matter for the consideration of the Commissioner's themselves, to whom I have referred the suggestion of the hon. Member.