§ MR. ARTHUR O'CONNOR (Donegal, E.)asked the Vice President of the Committee of Council, Whether, in view of the diminished attendance in infant schools necessarily caused by the exceptional severity of the weather, he will consider the equity of making some allowance in the matter of average attendance to those managers of schools to whom, without any fault of their own, considerable loss is now threatened?
§ THE VICE PRESIDENT (Sir LYON PLAYFAIR) (Leeds, S.)No provision exists in the Code by which the Department is empowered to make allowance for diminished attendance; but Her Majesty's Inspectors have instructions, at their inspection, to take carefully into account all exceptional circumstances which may put the school into an unfavourable position.