§ MR. DILLON (Mayo, E.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether his attention has been drawn to the operation of Rule 155 of the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland, under which the salaries of manual instructresses are reduced if the attendance of girls is less than twenty, and in calculating attendance no allowance is made for boys, although the instructresses are required to teach boys as well as girls; and whether, seeing that work-mistresses who were paid £12 a year for two hours work a day under the old system, 688 having now qualified by study and examination to act as manual instructresses, are often called in to work five hours a day for £16 a year, he will direct the attention of the Commissioners of National Education to the effects of this rule with a view to its amendment.
(Answered by Mr. Walter Long.) The considerations raised in this Question have already engaged the attention of the Commissioners, and will not be lost sight of.