§ Mr. O'DOWDasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether second-class national teachers in Class B are, on retiring from the service at the age of 64, entitled to an annual pension of £42; and, if so, can he explain why Mr. Quigley, late teacher of Drumcharley (No. 2) national school, Tulla, county Clare, who served nine months after attaining the age of 63 and paid his premiums to the pension fund during that period, is only in receipt of a yearly pension of £38 when he should at least be receiving £41?
§ Mr. BIRRELLIt is presumed that this question refers to Mr. Thomas Quigley, late principal teacher of the school referred to. I am informed that the pension of a second-class male teacher aged 64 who joined Class B is £42 a year. Mr. Quigley, a second-class teacher in Class B, retired on 1st December, 1907, having given nine months' service after his sixty-third birthday, and was granted the pension provided by the pension rules for a teacher of his age and class, namely, £38 a year. The pension rules do not provide for the grant of a proportionate part of the pension for the additional nine months.
§ Mr. JOHN MURPHYIs the right hon. Gentleman now in position to make inquiry into the conditions of the pensions granted to teachers in Ireland?
§ Mr. BIRRELLI should require notice of that.