§ Mr. P. J. O'BRIEN (Tipperary, N.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland if he can explain why the Board of Agriculture and Technical Education for Ireland have so far departed from their programme of last year in regard to technical education, which provided for free places at the Albert Institute, Dublin, for a certain number of boys who had qualified for the entrance examination, and in view of the fact that in the session now opened 602 at this institute such boys are debarred, provision being only made for those who are prepared to pay a fee amounting to, £17 for the summer term, if he will take steps to hasten the supplementary prospectus as promised, providing for free places, and so enable poor boys who were prepared to offer themselves for examination to avail themselves of the advantages of the institution at an early date.
§ MR. ATKINSONMy right hon. friend has already stated that the supplementary prospectus, which will deal with the course beginning in October next, will be issued as soon as possible.