§ Mr. HAYDENasked the Vice-President, of the Department of Agriculture (Ireland) if he will give the names of the bodies amongst whom was distributed the sum of £9,000 given by the agricultural branch of his Department to its technical instruction branch for the year 1914–15 for manual instruction and domestic economy in rural districts, and the amount set aside for each of those bodies, as notified to the Technical Instruction Board?
§ Mr. RUSSELLThe £9,000 voted by the Agricultural Board for the purposes of manual instruction and domestic economy in rural districts forms part of a general fund, with the £55,000 set apart under Section 16 (1) (c) of the Agriculture and Technical Instruction Act, 1899, for the purposes of technical instruction, from which contributions are made towards schemes of technical instruction administered by the committees appointed by the county, county boroughs, and urban district councils throughout Ireland. Committees appointed for the thirty-three administrative counties, and two joint urban and rural district committees, participated in the Grant of £9,000 referred to, but no portion of the Department's contribution to the schemes administered by these committees is specifically charged against this Grant, which, as already mentioned, forms part of a general fund.