§ MR. SLOAN (Belfast, S.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether, seeing that over three-fifths of the national schools have an average attendance of less than fifty, he will undertake that teachers of such schools will receive as favourable consideration as those of large schools when their salaries are being revised.
Answered by Mr. Bryce.) The Commissioners of National Education inform me that the cases of teachers in schools with an average attendance of less than fifty pupils are most carefully considered when their salaries are being revised in accordance with the rules. The Commissioners are unable to make any further general promise in the matter.