§ MR. GINNELLI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if he is aware that national school teachers in Ireland entitled, according to the rules, have not yet received certain increments of pay due to them on 1st April last; that resolutions on this subject forwarded to the Commissioners by the teachers' organisation have been left unheeded; and will he endeavour to have the payments made without further delay, and in future when they become due.
MR. BRYCEThe Commissioners of National Education inform me that the payment of the increments referred to in the Question is proceeding as rapidly as possible, and is now approaching completion. The present year is the third year of the triennial period, and the, work has, consequently, been especially heavy.