MR. T. M. HEALYI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether the Board of Works was advised on 9th June by the National Education Board of a grant for a school at Laghey, county Tyrone; whether the very reverend manager of the school has since requested an explanation of the failure of the Board of Works to proceed with their duty without receiving more than a printed acknowledgment; and is there any rule 690 preventing the Board of Works from dealing with any subject except after a delay of three months?
§ MR. HANBURYThe Board of Works received the notification from the National Education Commissioners on the 9th ultimo, and they duly instructed their local surveyor to revise the plans and specification so as to adapt them to the site. The surveyor was prevented by pressure of other business from giving immediate attention to the matter; but the Board had no reason to doubt, when they received the manager's letter on the 4th instant, that they would be able to send him the plans and specification at once. Otherwise they would have explained to him the cause of the delay. The documents, however, only reached the Board a week later, and the necessary copies were then at once forwarded to the manager of the school.