§ MR. WILLIAM ABRAHAM (Cork County, N. E.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland if he will consider the advisability of recommending the Commissioners of National Education, Ireland, to relax the rule which requires an average attendance of 70 pupils for three-quarters of the year ending March 1895, in order that appointments of one or two monitors may be sanctioned, this relaxation to apply only to the March quarter, during which the attendance of pupils was almost impossible in many districts owing to the condition of the roads?
THE CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND (Mr. JOHN MORLEY, New-castle-upon-Tyne)The Commissioners have already taken into consideration the exceptional circumstances, namely, severe weather and epidemics, that injuriously affected the average daily attendance for the quarter ended 31st March 1895; and they have directed that the rules that determine the strength of the recognised school staff by the average daily attendance, shall be relaxed in regard to that particular quarter.