§ MR. SEXTON (for Mr. HEALY)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Do the Intermediate Education secretaries defer publishing each year's list of examiners till it is too late to cancel any unsuitable appointment; has a gentleman been appointed to examine this year in arithmetic, who was also examiner in 1881 and in 1882; has he been thus selected for re-employment without the usual interval of two years since his previous employment, and in preference to others on the list more specially qualified, who have never been employed at all; is this examiner a brother-in-law of one of the secretaries; and, has the Lord Lieutenant given his sanction to the appointment?
§ MR. TREVELYANThe Assistant Commissioners who act as secretaries at the intermediate education examination, inform me that they have no authority to publish the names of selected examiners until authorized by the Board to do so; and that it is the practice of the Board not to authorize such publication until the commencement of the examination. A gentleman has been appointed to examine in arithmetic this year who examined in 1881 and 1882. His case is not exceptional, as 10 other examiners have been similarly re-appointed. There is no rule of the Board requiring an interval of two years to elapse before re-appointment. The gentleman referred to is a brother-in-law of one of the Assistant Commissioners. He was, in the first instance, 982 appointed by the Board to examine in arithmetic and book-keeping, because they considered him specially qualified for the duty by long experience, and they re-appointed him because he discharged the duty to their entire satisfaction. The Lord Lieutenant has sanctioned his appointment.