asked the Minister for Local Government if he will state the number of children at present detained at Daingean (Phillipstown) Reformatory School, the cost of same upon State funds, whether he is aware that several business firms are anxious to secure the premises for starting industries and giving much-needed employment in the district, and whether he is preferred to order the transfer of those at present detained in this institution to another reformatory and facilitate any business firm that may be anxious to secure the premises for the purpose already stated.
CEISTEANNA—QUESTIONS. ORAL ANSWERS. - DAINGEAN REFORMATORY PREMISES.
There are 34 boys at present in this school. The cost of their maintenance ordinarily is £706 yearly, but a special grant of £800 was made last year to meet portion of a deficit which had arisen from a fall in the admissions owing to the abnormal conditions. I am not prepared to take the steps suggested in the question. The premises are the property of the religious community which conducts the reformatory.