§ MR. BOLANDI beg to ask the President of the Board of Education whether he is aware that on the 17th of June there was issued by the Board of Education a page of Volume 17 of the Special Reports on Educational Subjects in substitution for the corresponding page of the volume issued on 10th June, and that this was done in order to omit two words; and whether similar steps will now be taken to correct the unwarranted reflection on Irish educational efforts which appears on another page of the same volume.
§ THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION (Mr. MCKENNA,) Monmouthshire, N.The correction to 697 which the hon. Member refers occurs in the prefatory note, for the accuracy of which the Board of Education are responsible. As I have already stated, the responsibility for the opinions expressed in the Report is the author's, and it does not, therefore, rest with the Board to make any correction in it.
§ MR. BOLANDHas the writer been informed that his statements have been challenged?
§ MR. MCKENNAI have directed that a copy of all Questions and Answers on the subject shall be sent to him.
§ MR. KETTLE (Tyrone, E.)And is he still unrepentant?
§ MR. MCKENNAI have not heard.