§ 16. Mr. M'GUFFINasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland if he is aware that meetings of senior inspectors of Irish national schools are convened from time to time by the resident Commissioner or chief inspector; if at these meetings the senior inspectors are instructed to lower the reports of the teachers, with the view of depriving them of the increments and promotion to which they might be entitled; if at a meeting of senior inspectors in Belfast the inspectors were told that the reports must be reduced; and if he will say if this system of influencing inspectors in their judgments upon the work of teachers has the sanction of His Majesty's Government?
Mr. HENRYThe divisional inspectors arrange conferences from time to time with the inspectors, but these meetings are not convened by the resident Commissioner or the chief inspectors. The Commissioners of National Education are satisfied that there is no truth whatever in the allegations contained in the second and third parts of the question.