§ CAPTAIN DONELAN (Cork, E.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if he can say (1) how many male principal teachers of the first division of the first class having incomes (exclusive of residual capitation 1481 grant) exceeding £127, and whose average attendance for the previous calendar year was not less than seventy, were in the service of the National Board on the 1st April, 1900 (the date of the introduction of the new system of payments to national teachers); (2) how many of such teachers joined the first of first grade; (3) how many of such teachers did not join the first of first grade; (4) why did not the last-mentioned teachers join the first of first grade according to Rule 200 (e) (5); and (5) why have the last-mentioned teachers (who got good reports) been awarded their increments for the triennial period just ended.
(Answered by Mr. Wyndham.) (1) 265. (2) 197. (3)' sixty-eight. (4) and (5). They were not eligible under rule by actual income for joining first of first grade. After the termination of three years from 1st April, 1900, six of these teachers had left the service. Of the remaining sixty-two, eight were promoted to first of first grade from 1st April, 1903; eighteen were not promoted because the average attendance at their schools had fallen below seventy; twenty-eight were not promoted because they could not be recommended by the inspectors, as they did not fulfil the necessary conditions for promotion; and eight were not promoted because the reports on their schools for the preceding three years were not sufficiently satisfactory.