§ Major O'NEILLasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether he has received resolutions in favour of providing prizes to pupils in Irish national schools and of bursaries to enable such pupils who show aptitude and promise to avail themselves of the advantages of education in a secondary school; if so, from whom such resolutions have been received; whether similar recommendations were made in the Report by Messrs. Dale and Stephens; and whether he proposes to take any action in the direction indicated?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONNo resolutions of the subject referred to in the question have been received by the Commissioners of National Education. Recommendations were made by Messrs. Dale and Stephens in 1905 in their Report on Intermediate Education, Ireland, for the provision of scholarships or bursaries for the transference of poor children of ability from the national to the intermediate schools. The Viceregal Committee on Intermediate Education, Ireland, in their Report recently presented to Parliament 893W (paragraphs 116, 117, 118, page 29), make recommendations for the establishment of bursaries for pupils of primary schools. This Report is at present under consideration.