The Estimate in the case of Endowed Schools is £880, which includes the sum for Schools in the Six-county Area on repayment terms. About £150 has been already repaid in respect of this service by the Northern Government. The work that we were doing formerly is being gradually handed over to the Northern Parliament. As no reduction of staff could be made by giving up this work it is economical, from one point of view, to continue until reorganisation becomes possible. It must be considered whether a separate office for this work is necessary at all, and whether this office could not be amalgamated with some other Department when the Saorstát has established its official position. It is not possible until it is established to consider properly the form in which reorganisation of the Service should take place.
Motion made and question put: "That the Dáil in Committee, having considered the Estimates for Endowed Schools in 1922-23 and having passed a Vote on Account of £575 for the period to the 6th December, 1922, recommend that the full Estimate of £880 for the Financial Year 1921-23 be adopted in due course by the Oireachtas."
Agreed.