§ MR. SLOANTo ask Mr. Attorney-General for Ireland if his attention has been called to a case heard at Lisnaskea Petty Sessions on December 31st last, where children were ordered to be sent to the Monaghan Female Industrial School; and, if so, whether he will explain why these children were sent to the school instead of the parents being prosecuted for their neglect.
(Answered by Mr. Atkinson.) The children were committed to an industrial school on the ground that they had been found wandering without proper guardianship. The parents of the children were at the time undergoing imprisonment.