THE EARL OF BELMOREasked the Lord President of the Council, If Her Majesty's Government have decided to deal this Session with the question of endowed schools in Ireland, whether those under the Commissioners of Education or otherwise?
§ LORD CARLINGFORD (LORD PRESIDENT of the COUNCIL), in reply, said, he wished that he could give a simple answer to his noble Friend by saying that the Irish Government had decided to deal with this question during the present Session; but he was unable to go so far as that. However, he was able to say that the matter was before the Irish Government, and was in their hands at this moment; and although the Chief Secretary for Ireland, having several other subjects of legislation to prepare for the consideration of Parliament during the present Session, was not now in a position to pledge himself to deal with the important question of endowed schools, yet he was very anxious to deal with it, and was not without hope of being able to do so before the close of the present Session.