§ MR. TULLYTo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether the Commissioners of National 1633 Education are prepared to publish for the year ending 31st August, 1902, all the Reports of their district and head inspectors as to their districts, giving in each case the name of the district and of the inspector making the Report; and can he explain why the Resident Commissioner has published only some of these Reports, and has omitted the names.
(Answered by Mr. Wyndham.) The Reports of the senior and district inspectors as to their respective districts were for the year ended 31st August, 1901, and not for the year ended 31st August, 1902 These Reports are not published by the Commissioners in their entirety. The chief inspectors have embodied, however, in their General Reports for the year ended 31st December, 1901, extracts from the Reports for that year of the senior and district inspectors, and those extracts bear the names of the inspectors from whose Reports they are taken. The chief inspectors Reports will be found in Section 1 of the Appendix to the last Report of the Commissioners, recently presented to Parliament. As will be seen on reference to this appendix, the Commissioners desire it to be distinctly understood that they do not hold themselves responsible for the opinions expressed in these Reports, nor do they feel called upon to adopt any suggestions they may contain.