§ MR. J. MURPHYI bog to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether the Commissioners of National Education, Ireland, are aware that their senior inspector of schools in Circuit 8, Belfast, was formerly an assistant teacher in national schools in that circuit, and that his relatives and friends live in the circuit; and will he say if it is in accordance with the practice of the Board to have inspectors stationed in their native localities.
§ MR. BIRRELLThe Commissioners of National Education inform me that the senior inspector referred to has been in their service as an inspector for thirty-one years. The Commissioners add that his occupation prior to his appointment as inspector, or the fact that he had relatives or friends in a particular circuit, would not necessarily affect his position as senior inspector of that circuit.