§ MR. FLYNN (Cork, N.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, in reference to the Development Fund Act, whether his undertaking given last session that all national schools, maintaining an average daily attendance of fifty pupils, will be entitled to the services of an assistant teacher will be carried into effect at an early date; and whether, in view of the fact that the Commissioners of National Education have frequently made representations to this effect, he will induce the Treasury to take steps to have this reform carried out with the least possible delay.
§ MR. WYNDHAMI promised to give this matter my earnest and favourable attention. But it must be considered in relation to all the features of primary education and to the charges, which cannot at present be determined, that may fall on the Development Grant in connection with the flotation of stock.
§ MR. FLYNNCan the right hon. Gentleman say when he is likely to be in a position to give the Irish Members this information?
§ MR. WYNDHAMI shall be very glad to do it, either in this House or out of it, as soon as possible.
§ † See (4) Debates, cxxix. 1037.