§ Sir J. LONSDALElikewise asked the Chief Secretary if he will grant a Return showing the Grants sanctioned by the Commissioners of National Education for the erection or structural improvement of national school buildings during the nine years ended 23rd January, 1915, distinguishing them into building grants made respectively to schools conducted by Roman Catholic monks, brothers, and nuns, to those managed by other Roman Catholics, to those managed by clergy and laity of the Church of Ireland, to those managed by Presbyterians, to those 388W managed by Methodists and other Protestant Dissenters, to those under joint Protestant management, and to those under joint Roman Catholic and Protestant management?
§ Mr. BIRRELLAs I stated in reply to a request for similar information made by the hon. and gallant Member for East Down on the 10th June, 1914, the preparation for this Return would involve a great amount of labour. The considerations which led to the refusal to grant it on that occasion are even stronger at the present time when the staff of the Board of National Education is depleted by the absence on military service of a number of its members.