§ MR. MASSIETo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ire- 712 land the number of children over fourteen years of age in Ireland who are attending the day schools aided from the Parliamentary grant, and the proportion per 1,000 which those scholars bear to the total number of scholars attending those schools.
(Answered by Mr. Bryce.) The Commissioners of National Education inform me that the number of children over fourteen years of age who are on the rolls of national schools in Ireland is 47,173 or sixty-four per thousand of the total number on the rolls. The Commissioners' records do not enable them to state the number of children over fourteen who are in average attendance, but the number over fifteen years of age in average attendance is 11,766 or 23.5 per thousand of the total average attendance.