§ MR. THOMAS O'DONNELL (Kerry, W.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, seeing that Irish national teachers were promised that they would suffer no financial loss through the introduction of the new system of education, whether those teachers who taught the principles of agriculture in school farms will have the annual amount thus earned included in 1176 the calculation of their future consolidated incomes; and, if not, whether they will be allowed to teach this subject in future for results; and whether teachers who only taught theoretic agriculture have the amounts thus earned included in the calculation of their consolidated incomes.
§ MR. ATKINSONThe question of including payments made for instruction in practical agriculture on school farms in the consolidated incomes of the teachers who gave such instruction is still under consideration. The answer to the inquiry at the end of the question is in the affirmative.