§ DR. THOMPSON (Monaghan, N.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he can state what service, on the 1st April, 1900, would entitle a national school teacher to receive the maximum salary of the grade in which he may be placed under the new rules, in case he is not already in receipt of such maximum salary; and whether special consideration will be given to classed teachers whose schools, owing to a decline in the attend- 68 ance, only entitle them to a lower grade salary than the salary of the grade occupied by them.
§ MR. WYNDHAMService given before 1st April, 1900, does not entitle a national school teacher to receive the maximum salary of the grade in which he may be placed. The cases of classed teachers in charge of schools with an insufficient average attendance are already dealt with under the rules issued by the Commissioners.