§ Mr. CHARLES CRAIGasked what was the sum total of Grants to convent and monastery national schools made last year in the cases where the communities adopt the principle of classification?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe Commissioners of National Education inform me that the total salaries and Grants paid to the teaching staffs of convent and monastery schools on the classification principle for the financial year 1911–12 was £31,138.
§ Mr. CHARLES CRAIGasked what were the Grants for teaching made last year by the Intermediate Education Board to convent schools, Christian Brother schools, monastery schools, and other Roman Catholic schools, respectively, under clerical head teachers, and Roman Catholic schools under lay head teachers; and how many Roman Catholic secondary schools have nuns, brothers, monks, other clergymen, and laymen at their head?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe amount's paid by the Intermediate Education Board for Ire-2940W land (including music bonus) in respect of the year 1911 to schools as classified in the question were as follows: Convent schools, £10,080 18s. 6d.; Christian Brothers' schools, £11,061 7s. 7d.; monastery schools, £1,348 12s. 3d.; Roman Catholic schools under clerical head teachers, £11,268 7s. 1d.; and to Roman Catholic schools under lay head teachers, £432 17s. 8d. The numbers of Roman Catholic secondary schools in connection with the Intermediate Education Board for Ireland having nuns, brothers or monks, other clergymen and laymen at their head in 1911 were, respectively, as follows: Nuns, 72; brothers or monks, 75; other clergymen, 51; laymen, 8; and laywomen, 2.