§ Mr. JEREMIAH MacVEAGH (for Mr. Thomas F. Smyth)asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland if he can state when will the promised contributions from the Treasury towards the heating and upkeep of the national schools in Ireland be forthcoming, particularly as the Catholic clerical managers have agreed to pay half the cost of the same?
§ Mr. CHERRYThe hon. Member is mistaken in supposing that any contribution from the Treasury has been promised. All that the Chief Secretary has said is that he is fully prepared to consider and to place before the Treasury for consideration any practical scheme for providing for the heating and cleansing of the schools which the managers and others interested may devise.
Captain CRAIGUnder the circumstances will the Government take off the block of the Bill which I introduced earlier in the Session on this very subject, and assist it in getting through the House?
§ Mr. CHERRYI am not aware that there is such a block.
§ Mr. MOOREIs the right hon. Gentleman aware that the Chancellor of the Exchequer himself at a public deputation gave that undertaking so far back as the month of March?
§ Mr. CHERRYYou had better have these questions addressed to the Prime Minister himself.