§ Mr. LARDNERasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland if he was aware that in several cases, where children and young persons have been committed to industrial schools under the Industrial Schools Act and the Children Act by courts of petty session in Ireland, children have, after a few days, been discharged from the school to which they were so committed, under direction from Dublin Castle, and without appealing against or setting aside in the usual way the order of the petty sessions court; will he now state by what authority the orders of the petty sessions courts were over ridden; and whether it is proposed to continue this practice?
§ Mr. BIRRELLChildren ordered by magistrates to be sent to certified industrial schools have been discharged by my order under the provisions of Section 69 of the Children Act, 1908, on my being advised that the order made by the justices was irregular or was not justified by the circumstances of the case. In any case in which it appears that the illegality of the order is the result of a miscarriage the police proceed with the case again so that the children may be legally sent to the school and detained there.