§ MR. MACVEAGHI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that the Belfast Corporation have adopted a resolution characterising the withdrawal of the grants-in-aid of technical instruction in Ireland as an evasion of Parliamentary responsibility, contrary to the understanding come to with local and educational authorities in Ireland, and unfair to the taxpayers of Ireland; and whether, in view of similar pronouncements by other public bodies in all parts of Ireland, he can state what action the Government propose to take.
§ MR. WYNDHAMRepresentations have been made to this effect. I have stated that it has been decided that the existing grants, amounting to *3,500, shall continue, but that a limit to their
† See (4) Debates, cv., 1260673 expansion should be laid down, not as a final limit, but as a future point of departure for the reconsideration of these grants in correlation with other Irish demands, whether educational or industrial, which may be disclosed, and with the resources available to meet them. The limit is fixed, provisionally, in accordance with these considerations, at *7,000 a year.