§ Mr. DORISasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether a junior assistant mistress, aged forty-five years, engaged in a national school whose present average is under fifty, will be entitled without examination to recognition as full assistant if the average rises to over fifty?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe Commissioners of National Education inform me that a junior assistant mistress aged over forty-five years engaged in a national school whose present average is under fifty is not entitled to recognition as full assistant if the average rise's over fifty unless she has already the qualifications of a full assistant.