§ MR. P. C. DOOGAN (Tyrone, E.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland if he can explain why Mr. Joseph McKernan, husband of the late Mrs. McKernan, teacher of Gortreagh National School, Cooks town, is refused the gratuity to which his wife was entitled on the occasion of her retirement through ill-health from the service of the Commissioners of National Education?
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURIn the case referred to the late teacher died before the award of a gratuity was sanctioned, and there is no legal power to do what is suggested in the Question.
§ MR. DOOGANWill the law be modified?
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURI must ask for notice of that Question.