MR. PATRICK O'BEIENI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether, in awarding the future income of first and second class National teachers who, owing to epidemics and severity of the weather, did not receive their full class salary for the last three years and whose results fees and residual grant were lessened in consequence, the Commissioners of National Education make due allowances for those diminutions of salary.
§ MR. G. W. BALFOURThe hon. Member on referring to Clause 20 of the New Rules will observe that cases in which the Commissioners may deem it inequitable to fix the future incomes of the teachers on the basis of their average incomes for the past three years will be specially considered.