§ MR. PINKERTON (Galway)I beg to ask the Solicitor General for Ireland if he would state how many new teachers have been appointed in the National Schools of Belfast within the past five years; how many of these have been pupil teachers in the Belfast Model School; what was the cost to the State per child in average attendance in the Belfast Model School for the year ending 31st March, 1889, exclusive of result fees; what was the corresponding average amount in the other National Schools of Belfast; and, in which Parliamentary Division of Belfast is the Model School?
§ MR. MADDENThe National Education Commissioners report that the particulars required by the hon. Member could not be given until the schools, most of which are at present closed for vacation, re-open; and until the Inspectors have completed the pressing business on which they are now engaged in regard to the annual examination of teachers and monitors. The Commissioners further point out that it would take some considerable time to collect the information, and that, under any circumstances, its proposed form in respect to the exclusion of results' fees from the calculation should be amended. The Model School is situated in the Parliamentary Division of West Belfast.