§ MR. BIGGARasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether, in the Belfast Model School, the amount of school fees paid to the head master is fourteen times that paid to an assistant, and whether this is in accordance with the Board's Regulation, under which the fees collected in Model Schools are apportioned?
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. LAW)Sir, in the Belfast Model School the amount of school fees paid to the head master is nearly 14 times that paid to the assistant masters. The head master of a model school under Treasury Regulations receives one-third of the school fees paid by the pupils. The assistants, between them, receive another third, and the remaining third is paid into the Exchequer as an extra receipt. In the case of the Belfast Model School, the assistants, 10 in number, get their third distributed 611 among them without any deduction; but the head master, under a right which he enjoyed before the new Regulations were made by the Treasury, receives something more than the third; but this is taken, not from the assistants' share, but from the third accruing to the Treasury. This is strictly in accordance with the Board's Regulations. I may observe that in the case of the Belfast Model School the assistants are particularly well paid, averaging from school fees, results fees, and class salaries about £125 a-year.