§ MR. HAZLETON (Galway, N.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether a national school teacher whose school hours extend from 10 a.m. to 2.40 p.m. is at liberty, not having any class from 2.40 to 3.30 p.m., the hour at which the school closes, under the rules of the National Board, to teach in an adjoining school after 2.40 p.m., at the request of its manager, subjects on the National Board's programme such as singing, mathematics (higher), or elementary science.
§ MR. BIRRELLThe Commissioners of National Education inform me that as a general rule a teacher is required to remain on duty in his own school for the entire school day as shown by the timetable. If the facts of any particular ease of the kind referred to in the Question should be submitted to the Commissioners, they would consider whether an exception could be made.