§ MR. SLOANTo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland if he will consider the advisability of reducing the average attendance required for assistant teachers in Irish National Schools from sixty to fifty, owing to the increase of work in connection with new programme and the decrease of population, particularly in rural districts.
(Answered by Mr. Wyndham.) It is not proposed to alter the scale of averages, according to which assistant teachers are appointed under existing rules.