10. Captain CRAIGasked the Chief Secretary whether his attention has been called to an advertisement appearing in the "Irish School Weekly," on 21st September, 1912, offering a principal teacher-ship of a school to a lady on the conditions of conducting a choir, playing Benediction service, and residing at a certain place; is he aware that similar advertisements have appeared in this and other papers, offering appointments on the ground of ability and willingness to discharge specified extraneous duties; and will he say what steps the Commissioners of National Education propose to lake for the purpose of ensuring that State-paid teachers will in the future be appointed solely on the ground of their ability to discharge the duties for which they are paid?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe Commissioners of National Education have taken no action in regard to the advertisement referred to. They do not permit school managers to make it a condition of employment of national teachers that they are to perform extraneous duties, but, should a manager desire to have a teacher who can conduct a choir, the Commissioners can see no grounds for interfering unless the manager proposes to employ the teacher at the extraneous duty without the teacher's consent and without special remuneration.