§ MR. A. O'CONNORI beg to ask the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether, in connection with the proposed appropriation in aid of education, he will consider the propriety of devoting some of the money available for Ireland, where education is not compulsory, to the improvement of the condition of the national school teachers?
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND (Mr. A. J. BALFOUR, Manchester, E.)As the hon. Gentleman knows, the present Government have always been careful to consider the claims of the