To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether two children named Horan, who were duly committed to the Cavan industrial school, were ordered to be discharged by the Lord-Lieutenant on the ground that the evidence on which they were committeed was insufficient; if so, will he say on whose representations was their discharge ordered; and will he have this case fully investigated.

This case was brought to my notice by the inspector of reformatory and industrial schools in the usual course, and I was advised by the law officers that the evidence did not justify the committal of the children to an industrial school. I was obliged, therefore, to direct the discharge of the children.