§ MR. DWYER GRAY (Dublin, St. Stephen's Green)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether the Board of Works have refused to grant a loan to the Rev. Mr. White, parish priest of Miltown Malbay, for the erection of a national school, although the proposed school was approved by the Board of National Education; whether, for many years, the Rev. Mr. White was unable to procure a site for the school owing to the refusal of Lord Leconfield, who owns all the land in the neighbourhood, to give land for the purpose; whether the Rev. Mr. White at last purchased the interest in an agricultural holding, subject to the Land Act, and thus acquired a site; and, on what grounds the refusal was based?
§ THE SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. JACKSON) (Leeds, N.)(who replied) said, he had no information as to Mr. White's difficulty in getting a site for a school. The reason why a loan could not be made was that a "present tenant" under the Land Act was not an owner within the meaning of the Act under which loans to schools were made. This had been explained to Mr. White. There were several communications.