§ ME. TULLY (Leitrim, S)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he can state on what grounds the Commissioners of National Education have refused to pay to Mr. Kenny, national teacher, Ballinameen, North Roscommon, the moneys at present due to him, and have prohibited him from acting as Poor Law guardian and district councillor in Boyle Union, to which position he was elected, although in other Farts of Ireland national teachers have been frequently elected as Poor Law guardians and served as such; and, whether he will direct that there will be no further interference by the National Board with Mr. Kenny in the office to which he has been elected in Boyle Union.
§ MR. G.W. BALFOURThe Commissioners have withheld salary from Mr. Kenny, National School teacher, pending his disconnecting himself with the offices of Poor Law guardian and district councillor in Boyle Union, to which he had been recently elected. They consider that the holding of such offices by a teacher of a National school is inconsistent with the proper observance of their rules requiring teachers "to abstain from controversy," and prohibiting them from taking any part in elections except by voting. If any teachers of National schools have held the position of Poor Law guardians, as 305 alleged, it was without the sanction or knowledge of the Commissioners.