§ MR. THOMAS O'DONNELL (Kerry, W.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland if he will explain why, in view of the fact that under the superseded rules of the National Education Board in Ireland a teacher of the highest rank was allowed to a school of thirty-five pupils, a teacher of the 1111 highest rank is denied, under the now rules, to every school whose average is less than seventy.
(Answered by Mr. Wyndham.) The Question appears to lose sight of the essential difference between class and grade. A teacher of first division of first; class received a salary of £70 per annum. A teacher in the first section of first grade receives a maximum salary of £175 per annum.