I beg to move for leave to introduce this Bill. It is a Bill "to amend the Intermediate Education (Ireland) Acts, 1878 to 1914, and the Local Taxation (Customs and Excise) Act, 1890."
INTERMEDIATE EDUCATION (AMENDMENT) BILL, 1924.—FIRST STAGE.
Might I ask the President to give us a little more information than he has given in regard to the purport of this Bill?
Mr. O'CONNELL
Has this Bill anything to do with the giving of relief to Intermediate teachers?
No. It is a matter of the distribution of the grant. If there is any objection to this Bill I will withdraw it.
Should not the Minister for Education be here when a Bill of this kind is introduced in order that we might learn something more about it? I think it is his unique legislative effort.
The Minister for Education is absent on urgent and important public business. That is the reason why I am moving the First Reading of the Bill.
I suggest that we might see the Bill in print. We are anxious to see what it contains.
Question—"That leave be given to introduce the Bill"—put and agreed to.
Second Stage ordered for Friday, July 4th.