§ Mr. LINDSAYasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland if the Commissioners of National Education issued a Circular to school attendance committees directing them to deal leniently with defaulters under the Compulsory Attendance Clauses of the Irish Education Act of 1892; if so, by what authority the Commissioners thus virtually repealed that law; and if he is aware that school attendance committees have rendered such obedience to that order that children of school-going age in many parts of the country stay away with impunity from school?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONThe Commissioners of National Education have not issued any Circular of the nature referred to in this question.