§ MR. GWYNN (Galway)To ask the Vice-President of the Department of Agriculture (Ireland) whether the headmastership of the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin is still vacant, if so, when an appointment will be made; and whether he will endeavour to recover and apply to purposes of the art school the sums which have lapsed to the Treasury by the prolonged refusal to fill this post.
(Answered by Mr. T. W. Russell.) An appointment is about to be made to the headmastership of the Metropolitan School 467 of Art. The suggestion contained in the latter part of the Question is, I am afraid, impracticable. The unexpended balance of salaries must, in the usual course. be surrendered to the Exchequer.