§ MR. PATRICK O'BRIEN (Kilkenny)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether the arrears of National School Grant for 1892, 1893, 1894, and 1895 will be paid only to living teachers, or will the arrears due be paid to the next-of-kin in cases in which the teacher to whom the arrears were due is dead, and whether retired teachers will be paid arrears due.
§ MR. G. W. BALFOURIf the money be voted by Parliament, an equivalent for the so-called arrears of school grant will, under the sanction of the Treasury, be apportioned among all teachers who were entitled to participate in the residual grant of the four years in question. In the case of those teachers since dead, their representatives will receive the amount payable. The grant will be subject to certain deductions on account of the pension fund.