§ MR. THOMAS O'DONNELL (Kerry, W.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he will state the number of Irish national school teachers who have been dismissed by order of the Board for inefficiency, degraded from the position of principal to that of assistant on the same allegation, or forced to retire on small pensions 1253 when within five years of their maximum service, during each of the last ten years, with average number of years served in each case.
| Year. | Teachers dismissed for inefficiency. | Teachers degraded from position of principal teacher, but not dismissed. | Teachers from whom salary was withdrawn within live years of their maximum service. |
| 1896 | Nil. | Nil | Nil |
| 1897 | 6 | Nil | 1 |
| 1898 | 16 | Nil | 1 |
| 1899 | 24 | 6 | 6 |
| 1900 | 19 | Nil | 9 |
| 1901 | 18 | 2 | 6 |
| 1902 | 26 | 1 | 6 |
| 1903 | 41 | 5 | 17 |
| 1904 | 61 | 3 | 24 |
| 1905 | 49 | 2 | 7 |
§ The average service of the teachers included in the last column was thirty-seven years.