§ MR. WILLIAM REDMONDI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if he will state how many intergrade teachers were in the service of the National Board on the 31st August, 1903; how many were promoted to the second grade, how many to the first grade, and how many to the first division of the first grade; will the National Board consider the claims of National teachers for promotion who in 1901 promoted all their pupils, though it was the year the revised programme took effect, and were awarded fair; will intergrade teachers who have been promoted to a higher grade lose a year's salary by making their promotion date from the 1st April, 1904, instead of the 1st April, 1903, like all other teachers who have got increments; how many intergrade teachers have not been promoted; and will they be given another opportunity of promotion.
§ MR. WYNDHAMOne thousand nine hundred and eight, of whom 332 were promoted to the second grade, thirty-eight to the second division of the first grade, and twenty-three to the first division of the first grade. The promotions were made on the recommendations of the inspectors considered in connection with the departmental records and the reports for three years on the schools. The promotion of intergrade teachers will date, as a rule, from 1st April, 1903. One thousand five hundred and fifteen such teachers have not yet been promoted. The cases of those who are eligible will be considered from time to time.