§ 13. Mr. BYRNEasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland if his attention has been drawn to the treatment of convent school teachers and assistant school mistresses in Ireland; if he is aware that the recent award of 4s. war bonus has not been paid to these teachers; if messenger girls in Government offices in England are better paid than those teachers; and whether he proposes to take any action in the matter?
§ Mr. DUKEThe answer to the first and second inquiries in the question is in the affirmative. I have no information as to the third. No further action as to the teachers in question is open to me.