§ MR. MACALEESE (Monaghan, N.)I beg to ask Mr. Attorney General for Ireland whether the Royal Academical Institution of Belfast receives any grant of public money; and, if so, what is the amount, when was the sum first allocated, and upon what grounds; and, from what fund is payment made.
§ MR. G. W. BALFOURThe only grant of public money received by this institution that I am aware of, apart from a sum of about £16 paid to it in 1896 by the Science and Art Department for the purchase of apparatus, is the annual grant earned by way of results fees from the Board of Intermediate Education. These fees are payable from the Local Taxation Account, and the annual reports of the Board, which are 593 duly presented to Parliament, show the amount of such fees earned by the institution from year to year. Thus in 1898 the fees paid amounted to £528 6s.