§ Mr. PATRICK O'BRIEN (for Mr. John Murphy)asked if the Commissioners of Intermediate Education were requested to consider the question of re-examination of the marking of the Irish papers at the last examination; whether they considered the question at their last meeting; if so, what decision was arrived at; and on what ground was the decision based?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe suggestion that the honour papers in Irish should be re-examined by a competent authority, and the further suggestion that the papers should be re-examined by the examiners, were considered by the Commissioners of Intermediate Education at their last meeting, when they declined to adopt either suggestion. The Commissioners inform me that they have never referred papers for re-examination unless satisfied that there has been some miscarriage. In the present instance they are satisfied that there was none.