HC Deb 14 March 1901 vol 90 cc1594-5
MR. JOHN CAMPBELL

I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether lie is aware that the national teachers in Irish workhouses labour under inequalities with their professional brethren in the matter of salary, promotion, compensation, and superannuation: and whether he will consider these grievances with a, view to their redress.

MR. WYNDHAM

Teachers in workhouse schools are officers of the Board of Guardians, by whom they are appointed, and who fix their salaries with the approval of the Local Government Board. It is also competent to the guardians to grant to them, at their I discretion, superannuation allowances. Workhouse teachers will be eligible for I promotion under the new system of gradation with the general body of national teachers, but such promotion will not give them any right to increased remuneration unless the guardians with the approval of the Local Government Board think lit to grant such an increase.