§ Major KERR-SMILEYasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether he has received resolutions from school attendance committees in Antrim and Londonderry asking for the amendment of Sections 1 and 2 of 55 and 56 Vic., c. 42; whether the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland have offered any suggestions to the Irish Government regarding compulsory attendance at national schools; and whether he is in a position to state what steps the Government proprose to taken in this matter?
§ Mr. SAMUELSThe answer to the first part of the question is in the affirmative. Certain proposals on the subject have been made to the Government by the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland and they will be carefully considered when an opportunity for introducing legislation presents itself.