§ MR. MACALEESEI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether his attention has been drawn to a memorandum as to provisional payments of income to teachers of National schools issued in June last by the National Education Board, Ireland, in which a section of paragraph 5 laid down that if a teacher's results period did not usually terminate till the 31st May, he would be paid as the June quarter's remittance (a) £20, the equivalent of twelve months results fees, etc.; (b) two months salary, etc., up to the 31st May, 1900, at the old rate, equal to £13 6s. 8d.; and 1342 (c) one month's consolidated income from the 1st June, 1900, namely, £8 6s. 8d., or a total sum of £41 13s. 4d. would be remitted to him; and in the event of items (b) and (c) having been remitted in such cases and item (a) withheld, can he say why, and whether item (a) will be made good to the teachers.
§ MR. G. W. BALFOURThe promises contained in the memorandum referred to are being fully carried out. Payments under (a) take a little longer time to determine than those under (b) and (c), but all such amounts falling due in the June quarter will have been discharged about the close of the current month.