§ MR. BOLANDasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he was now in a position to state the terms of reference to the Committee appointed to inquire into the work of the Royal Hibernian Academy.
§ THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY (Mr. VICTOR CAVENDISH, Derbyshire, W.)said the terms of reference to the Committee appointed by the Treasury was to inquire into the work carried on by the Royal Hibernian Academy and the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin, and to report whether any measures, and if so what measures, should be taken to enable these institutions to serve the purposes for which they were maintained.
§ MR. BOLANDasked why the National Gallery was excluded from the inquiry.
§ MR. VICTOR CAVENDISHsaid he did not think there was any particular demand for an inquiry into the working of the National Gallery, but if it should appear in the course of the investigation of the Committee that that institution should be included he should be glad to extend the scope of the inquiry.
§ MR. MOONEY (Dublin County, S.), as the Member whose Resolution led to the promise to appoint the Committee, was understood to say that he only withdrew his Motion on the distinct understanding that the inquiry should embrace the National Gallery as well.