§ MR. ERRINGTONasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether his attention has been called to the hardship entailed on teachers of National Schools, especially during the distress still existing in some parts of the country, by the rule under which any deficiency in the proportion of school fees entails forfeiture of one-half of the result fees; whether, under this rule, the teacher of the Lanes-borough National School has forfeited this year £18 result fees owing to a deficiency of 9s. in the school fees; and, whether, if this rule cannot be altered, he will at all events authorise the National Board to delay the operation of the rule for one year longer in places where, owing to the distress, they deem such relaxation just and necessary?
§ MR. W. E. FORSTER, in reply, said, his attention had been called to this matter, and though not to the particular case mentioned, yet to a similar one. 31 It referred to the conditions under which grants were made, and it was, therefore, a matter in which he must confer with the Financial Secretary to the Treasury.