§ Mr. DILLONTo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction makes any grant of money, directly or indirectly, to the Irish Agricultural Organisation Society.
§ (Answered by Mr. Bryce.) The Department of Agriculture has made payments to the Irish Agricultural Organisation Society up to March last for work done by the Society at the request of the Department in connection with certain forms of agricultural organisation, such as agricultural banks and home industries' societies, in respect of which no danger of controversy arose, and of which the Council of Agriculture had expressed their approval. It has this year been resolved to include provisionally other forms of organisation than those above- 692 mentioned for mutual advantage among members of the agricultural classes, and the Council of Agriculture are to be invited at their next meeting to express their opinion on the question of aiding such methods or forms.