§ MR. KENDAL O'BRIENI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether his attention has been called to the fact that the Local Government Board of Ireland has jurisdiction over Irish institutions which receive blind pupils for the purpose of giving them an industrial training, to enable them to become self-supporting; is he aware that those establishments depend to a considerable extent on the rates for their support: and, seeing that the Local Government Board has the right to look after blind persons sent by Boards of Guardians to the said institutions, will he explain why the Board has not done so; and will he take steps to bring this matter under the notice of the Local Government Board.
§ Mr. WYNDHAMThis Question is based on a misapprehension. The Local Government Board exercises no jurisdiction over institutions for the blind. The Board's approval is necessary to the selection of an institution to which the Guardians may desire to send a blind child under the age of eighteen, but beyond this the Board has no authority. I have no information showing to what extent such institutions depend on the rates for their support.