asked the Minister for Education if he will consider making funds available in forthcoming years to post-primary school authorities to establish comprehensive libraries for the use of pupils.

Financial provision has not been made in the Education group of Votes for 1982 for an extension of a schools library scheme as applicable to national schools to post-primary schools. I am not in a position at the present time to state whether it may be possible to give consideration to such an extension at a future date.