HC Deb 31 May 1905 vol 147 cc336-7
MR. DILLON

I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he can now say that he will lay upon the Table of the House the comments on Mr. Dale's Report sent in to the Government by the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland and referred to by the Commissioners in their last annual Report.

MR. WALTER LONG

The last published Annual Report of the Commissioners embodies substantially, and in considerable detail, their general observations on Mr. Dale's Report. The communications from the Commissioners which contain these observations are incomplete in themselves, since they make references to previous correspondence of a Departmental and confidential character that passed between the Irish Government and the Commissioners. For this reason I am unable to lay on the Table their observations as a separate Paper.