§ MR. WILLIAM JOHNSTON (Belfast, S.)I beg to ask Mr. Attorney General whether he has considered the representation of the Philanthropic Reform Association in favour of passing into law this session Clauses 3 to 18 of the Youthful Offenders Bill; and whether he will assist in enabling county councils of any county in Ireland to enter into an agreement with 915 the directors or managers of any certified reformatory school in England or Scotland to receive Protestant girls from Ire-land for whom no reformatory exists in that country, and so amend the law as to permit Irish justices to commit to a reformatory school in England or Scotland.
§ *THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir M. WHITE RIDLEY,) Lancashire, BlackpoolThe answer to the first paragraph is in the affirmative, but I am unable at present to say anything definite. The matter raised in the second paragraph is one rather for the Irish Government, with whom I am in communication.