§ Mr. SWIFT MacNEILLasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland if he will say how much was paid during the ten years ended 31st March, 1912, from the Ireland Development Fund to Irish educational schemes, mentioning the particular institutions to which such sum was paid?
§ Mr. BIRRELLDuring the period mentioned the following were the total payments made by the Commissioners of National Education out of money provided from the Ireland Development Grant:—
£ s. d. (a) Towards providing a new residence for the King's scholars in the Marlborough Street Training College 50,000 0 0 (b) Towards the cost of additional King's scholars in Our Lady of Mercy and De la Salle Training Colleges 24,457 4 3 (c) Towards the salaries of assistant teachers in national schools 131,883 19 0 (d) Towards the salaries of junior assistant mistresses in national schools 22,782 6 3 Total £229,123 9 6 In addition to the foregoing a sum of £727 14s. 10d. was paid during the period in question by the Board of Works out of the Ireland Development Grant in respect of Grants towards the cost of building new vested national schools. During the same period the sum of £52,500 was allocated to the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for the purposes of technical instruction. Out of this amount the following sums were expended on the purposes mentioned:—
(A) Grants in aid of the maintenance of Day Trades Preparatory Schools:—
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£ s. d. (1) Ballymena Municipal School 242 1 4 (2) Belfast Christian Bros. Schools 2,963 9 5
£ s. d. (3) Belfast Municipal School 3,046 12 10 (4) Blackrock (County Dublin) Municipal School 1,767 15 4 (5) Clonmel Municipal School 606 6 2 (6) Cork Christian Bros. School 200 0 0 (7) Kilkenny Municipal School 2,185 7 5 (8) Londonderry Municipal School 268 3 t (9) Portadown Municipal School 1,522 9 3 (10) Queenstown Municipal School 1,509 15 10 (11) Ringsend Pembroke Municipal School 2,364 17 6 (12) Sligo Municipal School 1,148 10 1 (13) Waterford Municipal School 1,346 9 10 (B) The following amounts were also expended from this source:—
£ s. d. (1) Special Grants in aid of local Technical Instruction Schemes 11,919 6 1 (2) Commercial Scholarships 3,223 4 8 (3) Industrial Scholarship 3,168 19 5 (4) Northlands School of Housewifery at Londonderry 2,467 72 (5) Royal College of Science for Ireland Engineering School 1,400 0 0 (6) Department's "Industrial Annexe" (for courses for Training Manual Instructors and other Teachers) 1,713 6 7 (7) Miscellaneous 227 7 8 Total £43,311 10 2