§ MR. FIELDI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that the English Local Government Board has at its disposal a yearly grant of funds for the 445 purpose of promoting scientific investigation; and, seeing that the Irish Local Government Board has not at its disposal any sum for a similar purpose, would he recommend the placing of the Irish Local Government Board in this respect on the same footing as the similar Board in England.
§ MR. WYNDHAMThe grant provided for the purpose of scientific research in the Vote for the English Local Government Board was inherited, I am informed, in 1871 from the Privy Council Department. The results of the researches have been published in a supplement to the Board's Annual reports. The suggestion in the second paragraph will be considered. I have already stated that the present pronouncements of Dr. Koch in regard to the transmission of bovine tuberculosis are engaging the attention of the Irish Local Government Board in conjunction with the Department of Agriculture.