§ MR. PATRICK O'BRIEN (Kilkenny)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that teaching diplomas have not yet been granted to all those teachers presently in the service who were one year students in St. Patrick's Training College during the session 1899–1900, though the reports of the inspectors upon the efficiency of their schools have been on the whole satisfactory for the past two years; and, if so, will he direct that all such omissions on the part of the Education Department will receive immediate attention, and that deserving teachers be sent their diplomas without delay.
(Answered by Mr. Wyndham.) The number of such teachers who have not yet been granted training diplomas is sixteen. In the majority of these cases the reports of the inspectors in respect to the efficiency of the teachers are not, I am informed, satisfactory. The other cases are under consideration, and diplomas will be issued as soon as possible.