§ MR. FLAVINTo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether the practice, which existed up to April, 1906, of giving promotion to teachers immediately after the award of partial increments of salary has been discontinued; and, if so, whether he car state the reason for this change of policy.
§ (Answered by Mr. Birrell.) The Com missioners of National Education inform me that it has not been the practice at any time since the introduction of the new system of payments to promote teachers immediately after the award of partial increment of salary. In some instances, however, in which the Commis 1530 sioners considered that the award of a partial increment did not meet the equity of the case, teachers were advanced to the next higher grade. The necessity for this exceptional treatment has now ceased to exist.