§ Mr. PATRICK O'BRIEN (for Mr. Hayden)asked whether there are 4,496 teachers at present employed in Ireland as principals or assistants untrained; and if the Commissioners of National Education have made any arrangement with the authorities of the training colleges whereby a certain number of places should be reserved for these teachers, who, at considerable sacrifice, were willing to undergo a two years' course to fit them for the work of educating the people's children?
§ Mr. BIRRELLAccording to the last Annual Report of the Commissioners of National Education, there were 4,496 untrained teachers employed in national schools in Ireland. The Commissioners have included in their rules for 1910–11 a provision by which they reserve to themselves the power to require a certain number of places in a training college to be set apart for untrained teachers employed in national schools.