§ 90. Mr. GINNELLasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland what reason is given by the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland for appointing and maintaining in parts of the country where Irish is still spoken, and where the people wish to preserve it, head inspectors ignorant of that language, and therefore incompetent to examine in it and hostile to the teaching of it?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe Commissioners of National Education inform me that the staff of inspectors of national schools in Ireland who know Irish is very limited, but the Commissioners keep in view as far as possible in the allocation of their inspectors the desirability of having inspectors with a knowledge of Irish in Irish-speaking districts. The Commissioners cannot make any further statement in regard to this matter unless the name of the senior inspectors and the districts referred to are furnished to them.