§ MR. FIELDI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he will introduce legislation to carry out the recommendations of the Royal Commission of 1885 regarding the blind, the deaf, and the dumb, respecting the application of the Compulsory Education Act, which has not been carried into effect in Ireland; and whether he will consider the advisability of introducing direct State aid, upon the Continental system, in preference to the voluntary system which is in force in the three kingdoms.
§ MR. WYNDHAMThe Royal Commission reported in 1889. The question of providing State aid towards the 1332 education of these afflicted classes deserves, and will receive, consideration but I cannot undertake to introduce legislation during this session.