§ MR. BOLAND (Kerry, S.)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether he has had an opportunity to consider the representations made on behalf of the Royal Hibernian Academy, and the Reports of the Committee appointed to inquire into the best means of enabling the academy to fulfil its functions; and whether, seeing that the academy has already put before the Treasury the businesslike and concrete scheme to which his predecessor in office, speaking in this House, in March, 1907, promised sympathetic consideration, he can say whether any, and, if so, what decision has been arrived at.
§ MR. HOBHOUSEI have made myself acquainted with the Reports of the Committee and with the later proposals of the Royal Hibernian Academy, which do not seem to me thoroughly satisfactory. I fear that I cannot undertake to provide out of public funds the whole cost of a new site and building on the scale suggested by the Academy.
§ MR. BOLANDWill the Irish Members have an opportunity of considering the proposals of the Treasury?
§ MR. HOBHOUSEI have no objection to that at all.