§ CAPTAIN DONELANI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland if he can say what steps it is proposed to take to safeguard the interests of the teachers in contributory unions in view of the fact that the direct grant, now to be included in the Education Estimates, is considerably less than the results hitherto paid by these unions.
§ MR. G. W. BALFOURFor the future, existing teachers of National schools in unions that have hitherto been contributory will have included in their income from State sources the moneys voted by the unions. In the case of future teachers no disparity will exist.
§ MR. MAURICE HEALYI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he can now state definitely what arrangements will be made to secure that National teachers in workhouses will suffer no loss from the abolition of result fees, and that an allowance will be made to them corresponding in amount to that hitherto allowed by the guardians for result fees.
§ MR. G. W. BALFOURI do not think I can add to the statement already made by me in answer to the previous question of the hon. Member, namely, that it will be open to the guardians to pay to teachers in workhouse schools a bonus equivalent to the average of the results fees for the last three years after each examination, if the report of the inspector upon the school be in every respect satisfactory