§ MR. M. J. FLAVIN (Kerry, N.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland if he would explain 475 why assistant teachers in ordinary national schools are not paid the same salary as those in model schools, they having to do the same duty; and whether the seventy-five average, which is necessary for a school to qualify for an assistant teacher, will be reduced?
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURI understand that in some respects the position and responsibility of Assistant Teachers in ordinary National Schools are different from those of Assistants in Model Schools. The whole question of the condition of Model Schools, including their financial position, is at present under the consideration of the Commissioners. The question of a reduction in the minimum average daily attendance of seventy, not seventy-five, entitling a School to one or more Assistant Teachers, is at present the subject of correspondence between the Irish Government and the Treasury.