§ MR. GINNELLTo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland if he is aware that certain national school teachers in Ireland have not yet been paid fees due to them for teaching mathematics for the year ended 30th June last; how soon will those fees be paid; and, notwithstanding that the payments vary, would it not be possible for the Commissioners of National Education with the aid of calculated tables, to have all moneys due to teachers paid to them with reasonable promptitude.
(Answered by Mr. Birrell.) The Commissioners of National Education inform me that the payment of fees for the teaching of mathematics as an extra branch during the year in question 34 has been somewhat retarded owing to departmental correspondence as to the provision of the necessary funds. The fees are now in process of payment and every effort will be made to expedite the work.