§ MR. SLOANI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland if he is aware that, in Belfast, payments described as balance of grade salary for the quarter ending 31 st March, 1901, are being paid to some teachers and withheld from other; if he will state how this balance accrued, and on what basis it has been calculated; and if he will arrange that all money due to teachers may be paid forthwith.
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND (Mr. WYNDHAM,) DoverThe Commissioners of National Education 510 report as follows:— In the payment of salary made to teachers in April, 1901, was included the balance of residual grant for the year 1900. In some cases this balance left the portion of "fixed" or grade salary for the quarter ended 31st March, 1901, less than what teachers were entitled to for that quarter, consequent on the division of their consolidated incomes into two portions in 1901. It is in such cases that the balance of grade salary is now being paid. This payment has not been withheld in any case where it was shown to the Commissioners that a balance of grade salary was due. The payments are still in progress.