§ MR. J. C. FLYNN (Cork, N.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, whether, in regard to the untrained national teachers who are going up for examination this month with a view to promotion, the Commissioners of National Education will direct that marks for good service will be allowed to those who have given 20 years' service?
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURI am informed by the Commissioners that the regulations under which untrained teachers are admitted to the annual July examinations do not provide for good-service marks, and that it is not the intention of the Commissioners to introduce any such provision in respect of this year's examinations.