§ MR. JAMES O'CONNOR (Wicklow, W.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland if he can ascertain the number of children of both sexes who do not attend school in Dublin owing to the non-application by the Corporation of the Compulsory Education Act?
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURThe Commissioners of National Education have no statistics of the number of children who do not at present attend school in Dublin owing to the non-application of the compulsory attendance clauses of the Act of 1892, in the case of children between 6 and 14 years of age. The number of such children in the city of Dublin at the date of the last census in 1891 was 36,624, of whom 33,048 had been in attendance at school during the year ended 31st March, 1891. And of these 33,048 children 9,283 attended 150 days or upwards. This is the latest official information on the subject.