§ Mr. DEVLINasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether he has cconsidered the case of teachers in convent national schools; whether the same ar bonus will 882W be given to these teachers as to ordinary national school teachers, and not only to all the lay assistants recognised as serving on the staff, but also to the numerous additional teachers employed in many convent schools who are necessary for the efficient instruction of the pupils; and whether additional provision will be made for an increase of remuneration to the convents engaged in the teaching and conducting of the schools?
§ Mr. DUKEA special Capitation Grant at the rate of 4s. per annum for each unit of the average daily attendance of pupils will be paid from 1st July last to the conductors of convent national schools which are paid solely by Capitation Grants as an equivalent for the war bonus provided for teachers in ordinary national schools. Where lay assistant teachers are employed as part of the teaching staff of a convent national school paid on the capitation system, such assistants are paid their salaries out of the Capitation Grants provided for the school as a whole. The claims of lay assistants in convent schools for a war bonus must be met in the same way out of the special Capitation Grants issued to the conductors of such schools in respect of the war bonus.