§ MR. SLOAN (Belfast, S.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if he can state the number of schools in Ireland which teach the Irish, French, and Latin languages; and what is the scale of fees charged for these extra subjects respectively.
(Answered by Mr. Walter Long.) According to the latest available, Returns the number of schools in which Irish, French, and Latin, respectively, are taught is as follows: Irish, 2,018; French, 193; Latin, 109. No statistics are available as to the number of schools in which these subjects form part of the ordinary day-school curriculum; nor as to the scale of fees charged to the pupils for instruction in these branches as extra subjects. The Commissioners pay fees to the teachers for instruction in these branches as extra subjects according to the following scale:—Irish, 10s. per pupil, per annum; French, 5s. per pupil, per annum; Latin, 5s. per pupil, per annum.