§ MR. JORDAN (Fermanagh, S.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether, as the Spearstown National School, county Donegal, was on the Roll of the Com missioners of Education for thirty-two years, and as there have been exceptional cases in which the Commissioners have made grants to schools having an average of thirteen or less, and seeing that the motion to strike this school off the roll was carried by only a majority of two, will he consider this case, and recommend the Commissioners to make an exceptional grant; and whether, seeing that the teacher had a clean record for thirty-two years, and that in a few months ho would have been entitled to his full pension, will he, considering all the circumstances of the case, recommend the Commissioners to grant him his full pension.
§ MR. WYNDHAMI cannot undertake to intervene in the allocation of grants to schools by the National Board. I have referred the question of according a full pension to that body for its observations.