§ Mr. SHEEHANasked the Vice-President of the-Department of Agriculture (Ireland), whether his attention has been drawn to a resolution of the joint technical instruction committee for county Cork asking to have an amending Bill passed to allow £20,000 per annum of the Development Grant to be applied to the purposes of building technical schools in Ireland or of relieving the debt already incurred by such building; and will he say what steps it is proposed to take in the matter?
§ Mr. T. W. RUSSELLThe answer to the first part of the question is in the affirmative. The question of introducing an amending Bill on this subject is one for the Government. The Department has more than once applied to the Treasury for additional funds to enable them to make Grants-in-Aid of the provision of 1141W suitable buildings for technical instruction, but the Treasury have been unable to agree to such grants being provided from moneys voted by Parliament.