§ 79. Captain REDMONDasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether he is aware that the Ministry of Health is now making grants-in-aid of services for the blind in Great Britain, and that their Lordships of the Treasury have promised to ask Parliament to vote an interim grant of £12,000 for services carried on for the benefit of the blind in Ireland; and if he will state when the House will be asked to sanction this amount?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONThe reply to the first part of the question is in the affirmative. As regards the latter part, a Supplementary Estimate for the current financial year makes provision, amounting to £7,000, for the payment of instalments of grants at a rate not exceeding 50 per cent of the estimated grants for the year.