§ MR. M. HEALYI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether, under the rules of the Board of National Education in Ireland, ordinary assistant teachers are paid the same, no matter to what class they belong; whether assistant teachers in model schools and training schools are, notwithstanding this rule, paid according to class and also for extra duty; whether 1729 Sir Patrick Kerran has frequently represented the injustice of the rule in question to the Treasury without effect; and whether, in allocating the funds available this year for education in Ireland, provision will be made to enable this rule to be modified so as to treat ordinary assistant teachers on the same footing as those in model schools and training schools, and thereby give them some incentive to rise to a higher class?
§ MR. A. J. BALFOURAssistant teachers in ordinary National schools are not paid salaries according to classification. Their salaries are at a special rate. They each also obtain a share of the results fees equal to one-half of the amount awarded to the principal teacher. Assistants in the model and training schools are, in consideration of the important functions exercised by them in connection with the instruction of monitors, pupil-teachers, and candidate teachers, awarded salaries according to their class.