§ Mr. BOLANDasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether he can state what change, if any, he proposes to make in the classification of the age above which persons in Ireland will be classified, in the official Report of the Census, as illiterate or otherwise; and whether he can indicate if the present practice of taking the age at five years will be adhered to?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe question of the minimum limit of age to be adopted in the table of illiteracy will be carefully considered by the Irish Government before the tables which are to accompany the Report on the Census of 1911 are approved. Some change will doubtless be made, but I cannot at present say what its effect will be.