§ MR. SEXTONI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that, in a case of the erection of a National school at Cam, County Derry, the Board of Education in Ireland have refused to make the usual grant in aid of the cost of building, and have based their refusal upon the circumstance that the erection of the school had been begun before the rule as to sanction by the Board had been formally complied with; whether, before the building was begun, the site had been sanctioned by the Land Commission, and the Inspectors of the Board of Education and the Surveyor of the Board of Works had made approving Reports; whether a year and a-half elapsed from the time of the first application for the grant until the time when the building of the school was started, and during this period there was no place available for the education of the children of the district except a room 15 by 16 feet, which the Commissioners had refused to recognise, as being in-sanitary and otherwise unsuitable; whether, since their refusal to make any grant in aid of the cost of erecting the new building, that building, the suitability of which as a school is not questioned, has remained unused, and the Commissioners have allowed the education of 72 children to be carried on in the 685 room of 15 by 16 feet which they had recently condemned; and whether, in the interests of education, the circumstances of the case will be further considered, with a view to some reasonable settlement?
MR. J. MORLEYI understand that the matter referred to in this question will be brought under the notice of the National Education Board on Tuesday next. Perhaps, therefore, my hon. Friend will repeat it on the following Thursday.