HC Deb 21 July 1902 vol 111 cc777-8
MR. BOLAND (Kerry, S.)

I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether the rules for the examination of teachers in the Irish language under the Board of National Education in Ireland could be assimilated to the rules for the examination of teachers in the Welsh language under the Board of Education in England, so as to have three separate programmes of examination, one on entrance to the training colleges, one at the end of the first year of training, and one at the end of the second year.

THE CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND (Mr. WYNDHAM,) Dover

The Commissioners of National Education have had before them the question of prescribing programmes for examination in Irish, but they have not yet come to a final decision on the matter. The suggestion in the Question has not been lost sight of.