I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, whether local authorities in Ireland who have adopted the Compulsory Education Act, appointed school attendance officers, and included the expenses in their estimates, can now pay these expenses without being surcharged by the Local Government auditor?

I am informed that in no case in which the expenses mentioned have been paid, save in the case of Belturbet, the circumstance respecting which I explained in answer to a question on the 29th April, has there been a surcharge by the auditors.