§ MR. MAURICE HEALYI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord 286 Lieutenant of Ireland whether in the changes proposed to be introduced in the methods by which national teachers are paid any provision will be made for national teachers in workhouse schools; whether he is aware that many boards of guardians have hitherto made to their teachers a payment corresponding to the results fees in. ordinary schools, and that the National Board of Education has assisted the guardians to establish this method of payment by requiring their inspectors to report on the answering of the individual pupils in the workhouse schools in the same manner as in ordinary schools; and whether, as this will in future be no part of the duties of the inspectors, and it will therefore not be possible for the guardians to continue to pay results fees, some provision will be made to prevent the workhouse teachers suffering loss by the proposed change.
§ MR. G. W. BALFOURThis matter has already been considered by the Local Government Board on a resolution passed by the board of guardians of Limerick Union proposing that the teachers of workhouse schools who have hitherto been paid results fees from the rates should be given increments to their annual salaries to compensate them for any loss arising from the abolition of the results system. The Local Government Board informed the guardians that they do not consider that a fixed increment to the salaries of the teachers in workhouse schools should be made by the board of guardians in lieu of the results fees hitherto given from the rates upon the certificate of the Board of National Education, but that they would be prepared to consent to a bonus equal to the average of the past three years results fees being given to the teachers after each examination if the report of the inspector upon the school was in every respect satisfactory.