§ 98. Captain C. CRAIGasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether the increase of salary granted to the Irish national school teachers on 1st April, 1917, is pensionable as from that date; and, if not, why have these increases been treated differently from increases to salaries of other Civil servants?
§ The ATTORNEY-GENERAL for IRELAND (Mr A. W. Samuels)The pensions of national school teachers are calculated in accordance with the terms of the Pension Rules of 1914 on the average annual salary for the three years ending the 31st March prior to the date from which they become entitled to award of pension and the Commissioners of National Education have no power to calculate the average annual salary on any other basis. Teachers who were placed on pension from any date prior to the 1st April, 1918, receive no benefit under the rules of 1914 from the increased salaries allowed from the 1st April, 1917. The conditions under which national school teachers are pensioned, under existing Regulations, are not the same as those governing the award of pensions to Civil servants.