§ MR. BIGGARasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, If the salary has been withheld, up to the present, from Mr. Owen Ryan, who was appointed as seventh assistant in the Milford Street Male National School, Belfast, on the 10th day of October 1882, and whose appointment was notified to the Board of Education on the 21st day of February 1883; and also if it is not true that the said Owen Ryan was previously employed in the capacity of principal teacher at the Clonmore Male National School, county Tipperary, where the Commissioners, by their letter of 24th August 1882, granted him provisional classification, pending next annual examination to be held in July 1883; and, if so, if he would explain why his salary has been withheld?
MR. TEEVELYAN, in reply, said, the average attendance was not high 20 enough to qualify the Milford Street School for assistance. The circumstances with regard to Mr. Owen Ryan were as stated; but they had no bearing upon the refusal to pay his salary as teacher at the Belfast school.