§ CAPTAIN DONELANI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, whether he is aware that the present National School system in Ireland requires an average attendance of seventy pupils in order to secure the services of an assistant teacher; and whether, in view of the fact that this rule injures the efficiency of many schools, consideration will be given to the desirability of reducing the average number to sixty?
§ *MR. GERALD BALFOURI fear I cannot at present add anything to the replies which I gave to the Questions put to me on the 2nd and 4th inst. on this subject by the hon. Member for North Cork (Mr. J. C. Flynn).