Mary O'Rourke (Fianna Fail)

All of those Acts are most interesting. Some of the titles which appealed to me were enacted during the so-called Act of Union. The National School Teachers Residences (Ireland) (Amendment) Act 1884 is interesting. Some schools in rural Ireland still have residences attached, where the principals have adjoining living quarters. In some instances they are physically joined to the schools, while in others they are detached. Just imagine that such a small matter as building a residence for a school principal had to become an Act. There must have been an earlier Act, because it is an amendment that I am reading about here. In an historical sense this is very interesting. All of the 19th century was interesting since many of the great figures such as Daniel O'Connell and Parnell had to soldier over and back across the Irish Sea to make their way to Parliament at Westminster and pass laws.

There was the Employment of Children Act 1903 and the Street Betting Act 1906. Then there was the Tuberculosis Prevention (Ireland) Act 1906. Perhaps Senator Mansergh can tell me whether that was the time when Gladstone——