HC Deb 18 February 1907 vol 169 cc562-3
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. RUNCIMAN

Communications are still going on between the Treasury and the Irish Government on this subject.

MR. DILLON

Is the hon. Gentleman aware that this controversy has lasted ten †See (4) Debates, clxvii., 1288. years and that meanwhile numbers of Irish schools are falling into ruin?

MR. RUNCIMAN

I know it has been going on a long time. I am entirely new to it. The negotiations are now proceeding with rapidity.

MR. DILLON

I have received exactly the same Answer from four or five of the hon. Gentlemen's predecessors.