§ MR. SHEEHAN (Cork County, Mid); To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if, on taking into consideration the fact that less than 40 per cent. of the Irish national teachers have keen trained in Part I. of the elementary practical science course, and only 6 per cent. in the Part II. course, he will state what arrangements have been made for the training of the remaining teachers who have not yet had an opportunity of attending the organisers' classes, and who had no opportunity of receiving instruction in this subject when they were passing through the training colleges.
(Answered by Mr. Waller Long.) The Head Organiser of Elementary Science and two assistants have been permanently retained to continue the training of teachers in science, and the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction are giving facilities for the training of teachers in that subject at local technical schools.