MR. LONSDALE (Armagh, Mid)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland if he will explain why the teaching staff of the Killylea National School, county Armagh, 636 which has been connected with the Board of National Education in Ireland for a period of seventeen years ending March 31st, 1900, have only received results fees for sixteen years; and whether any arrangement is being made to pay the one year's fees yet due.
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND (Mr. G. W. BALFOUR,) Leeds, CentralResults fees, as such, are not payable after the 1st of April, 1900; but teachers who taught under the results system up to the end of last financial year will receive an equivalent for such fees, based on the average payments for the last three years. The mode of payment is at present under consideration.