§ MR. SEXTONasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether Mary McCaffrey, principal teacher of the Newtownbatter (county Fermanagh) Female National School, was, in consequence of a physical injury received through the falling of a blackboard in the schoolroom, discharged in 1873, after seventeen and a-quarter years' service, with a gratuity of 1214 £38 10s.; whether Miss McCaffrey having recovered from the physical disability, lately applied for admission to training, with a view to re-entering the service of the Education Board; and, whether the Government will either direct her re-admission, or order a supplementary grant to be made, by way of some provision towards the subsistence of an employee discharged through no fault of her own?
§ MR. TREVELYANI find that the Question of the hon. Member sets forth the facts of Miss McCaffrey's case with substantial accuracy. A supplementary grant cannot be awarded to Miss McCaffrey, who received the full gratuity to which she was entitled at the time of her retirement; and by Rule 220 of the Commissioners, a Rule which was dictated to them by the Treasury as absolutely requisite and binding—
Under no circumstances can a teacher who received a retiring gratuity or a pension be readmitted to the service of the Board.