SIR THOMAS ESMONDS (Wexford, N)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if the work of erecting the proposed two now schools in the parish of Ferns, county Wexford, may now be proceeded with.
MR. BRYCEThe Commissioners of National Education assume that the Question refers to the applications for building grants for the Clologue and Ballindaggin schools, near Ferns. As the Commissioners have now been authorised to proceed with the consideration of applications for grants in urgent cases, the application in question with others of a like nature will receive early consideration, but the Commissioners inform me that they are not in a position to give an immediate authorisation to commence building in these cases. The Commissioners will, I have no doubt, expedite the matter as much as possible.