§ MR. O'SHAUGHNESSYI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if he can say why it is that, under Rule 194 of the Commissioners' Code, building grants for adjoining boys' and girls' schools cannot be made unless there is an average attendance of fifty pupils in each school, while, under revised Rule 186, amalgamation of boys' and girls' schools shall not take place where, in the opinion of the Commissioners, the average attendance would be over thirty, but for the operation of Rule 127 (b).
§ MR. WALTER LONGThe Commissioners do not make building grants for new separate schools for boys and girls unless there will be an average attendance sufficient for the employment of a second teacher at each school. They continue, however, to make grants to existing separate schools for boys and girls with averages between thirty and fifty, and they have so far relaxed their requirements that they do not insist upon amalgamation unless the average at either school falls below thirty.
§ MR. O'SHAUGHNESSYasked why the alteration had been made in the figures of the average attendance.
§ MR. WALTER LONGI ought to have notice of that.