§ MR. TULLY (Leitrim, S.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether the Commissioners of National Education can state on what grounds they refused to pay to the assistant teacher in the parish of Fairymount, county Roscommon, three quarters salary, although this amount was certified to be due by the manager of the school; and what redress they propose to offer to the lady who has been thus 445 deprived of the money which she alleges she had earned.
§ MR. G. W. BALFOURI am informed by the Commissioners that payment of salary was not allowed to the assistant teacher of the school referred to prior to the 1st October, 1899, because the necessary conditions as to average attendance and accommodation were not fulfilled, and that the circumstances of the case do not admit of any further concession in favour of this teacher.