§ MR. MARUMasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether his attention has been called to the action of the Commissioners of National Education of Ireland in disallowing portions of salaries of National teachers, owing to any temporary decline in the average attendances of schools caused by a prevalence of epidemics, whereby the teacher of the Smithstown National School at Castlecomer was mulcted recently in a loss of three pounds, in consequence of an outbreak of scarlatina in the locality?
§ MR. TREVELYANI am glad to be able to inform the hon. Member that the Commissioners of National Education are not in the habit of making deductions from the salaries of National teachers owing to any temporary decline of attendance of scholars caused by the prevalence of epidemics. In the case of the Smithstown School, the Commissioners inform me that the full salary would have been paid if the manager had made any representation that an epidemic prevailed.