§ Mr. KERR-SMILEYasked the Chief Secretary if teachers affected by the Maynooth resolutions, in receipt of three months' notices countersigned by the bishop of the diocese, have the same right of appeal to the Board of National Education for reversal of their sentences of disemployment as Protestant teachers; and whether the priests who manage the vested schools, wholly built at the expense of the State, have the same right of employing and disemploying the State-paid teachers of these schools, with the consent of the bishop of the diocese, as the managers of schools erected by voluntary contributions?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe Commissioners of National Education inform me that Rule 96 of their Code provides for appeals by national teachers, and this rule applies equally to teachers of all denominations. The answer to the second paragraph of the question is in the affirmative.