HC Deb 17 May 1912 vol 38 cc1522-3W
Mr. HUGH BARRIE

asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland by whose instructions the secretaries to the National Board of Education (Ireland) are pressing teachers in the national schools to distribute the leaflets of the National Insurance Commissioners amongst their scholars?

Mr. BIRRELL

The National Health Insurance Commissioners asked the Commis sioners of National Education whether they would have any objection to the distribution of leaflets relating to the National Insurance Act through the medium of the national schools in Ireland in order to spread a knowledge of the provisions of the Act. As these leaflets bear strongly on the question of national health the Commissioners of National Education undertook to facilitate the distribution of them in the manner indicated, but they are not pressing national teachers to distribute the leaflets amongst the scholars.