Captain CRAIGasked the Chief Secretary if he is aware that there is dissatisfaction in many parts of Ireland among contributors to the expense of national schools because they are not supplied with information as to how the money which they contribute is expended and, in fact, have no guarantee that it is all devoted to the purpose for which it is given; and have the Commissioners the intention of enjoining the appointment of a lay treasurer in each school, as was recommended by Sir Robert Kane, Commissioner of National Education and member of the Powis Commission, and of requiring the lay treasurers to suspend on the school walls audited accounts of receipts and disbursements?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe Commissioners of National Education inform me that they have no information on the subject. They have no intention of appointing lay treasurers as suggested in the question.