§ MR. WILLIAM REDMOND (Clare. E.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether as the recent instruction, issued by the National Board of Education in Ireland to their inspectors that no teacher of a national school the reports upon which fall below the standard good will be recognised to earn fees for the teaching of an extra subject, is calculated to interfere with the teaching of Irish in schools classed as fair or very fair, he will recommend the modification of this instruction so that children may not be precluded from learning the Irish language.
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND (Mr. WYNDHAM,) DoverThe recent circular of instructions does not in any way interfere with the teaching of Irish during school hours. It has reference to its teaching as an extra subject, outside the ordinary school hours, for which a special fee is payable. With this aspect of the circular I dealt very fully in 579 answer to a Question put to me yesterday by the hon. Member for West Kerry.†