§ MR. DILLON (Mayo, E.)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether the difference between the Treasury and the Board of National Education in Ireland, in reference to the new plans for schools, has yet been settled.
§ MR. RUNCIMANCommunications are still going on between the Treasury and the Irish Government on this subject.
§ MR. DILLONIs the hon. Gentleman aware that this controversy has lasted ten
†See (4) Debates, clxvii., 1288.563 years and that meanwhile numbers of Irish schools are falling into ruin?
§ MR. RUNCIMANI know it has been going on a long time. I am entirely new to it. The negotiations are now proceeding with rapidity.
§ MR. DILLONI have received exactly the same Answer from four or five of the hon. Gentlemen's predecessors.