§ Mr. HUGH LAWasked the Chief Secretary whether he is aware that the No. 2 national school, situated on Arranmore Island, county Donegal, is overcrowded and that the National Board of Education has given notice to the manager that thirty-nine pupils must at once be excluded in consequence of such overcrowding; whether a sealed consent must be given by the Land Commission to subdivision of the holding selected for the site of a new school before any Grant for such school can be made; whether as long ago as December, 1911, the Land Commission signified their willingness to give such consent, but have not yet done so in the required form; and whether, in view of the urgency of the matter, he will request, the Land Commission to issue a sealed consent without further delay?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe Commissioners of National Education inform me that the facts are as stated in the first paragraph of the question. I understand that the consent referred to has now been sealed and issued by the Land Commission.