§ DR. AMBROSE (Mayo, W.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether it is the intention of the Treasury and Commissioners of National Education to withhold from teachers in charge of schools with an average attendance under thirty-five any portion of the grant of £114,000 which has been voted for the augmentation of the salaries of national school teachers; is he aware that there are at least 3,000 of such schools in Ireland, that the teachers in charge have to do all the work themselves, not as a rule being provided with assistants, and are therefore entitled to their due share of the grant; and whether, seeing that the withholding of the grant from those teachers would inflict a great injustice on them and on the children, he will see that they are secured their due share of it.
(Answered by Mr. Birrell.) No schools are excluded from participation in the grant.