§ MR. W. J. CORBETasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Whether his attention has been called to the fact that, while the convent national schools are, according to Sir P. J. Keenan, the Resident Commissioner of National Education, "remarkable for their efficiency in secular teaching, and especially so for their moral and religious results," the nuns who teach in them are deprived of the advantages of the increase accorded to classified teachers; and, whether he will inquire into the matter with a view to removing this inequality?
§ MR. TREVELYANSir, I have stated this Session that convent national teachers in Ireland are in all cases at liberty to adopt the principle of classification, and when they do their salaries are the same as those of secular teachers. I will look again into the matter; but, having regard to what I have stated, my doing so must not be taken as in any way holding out hopes of any alteration.