§ MR. FLYNN (Cork Co., N.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether he can say if national school teachers who were trained during the years 1898–1900, and who have since been appointed to principalships, are entitled to special consideration in the fixing of their salaries, in view of the fact that they entered the training colleges under the old rules in the expectation that they would be paid their class salary subsequently if appointed to principalships.
§ MR. WYNDHAMI am informed by the Commissioners of National Education as follows:—Teachers who were trained in the year 1898–1899 have received all the privileges they were entitled to under the old rules. In the case of teachers who were candidates for promotion at the annual examinations of 1900, or who, as Queen's scholars, entered training colleges for the year of training in 1899–1900, special consideration 286 was given to any promotion in classification to which they would have been entitled when fixing their future incomes from the State.