§ Mr. FIELDasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether he has received a resolution recently passed at a meeting of the Principal Teachers' Union, Dublin; whether his predecessor had arranged to carry out the promise to consider the substitution of a more reasonable standard than that of highly efficient as a condition governing the payment of supplemental salaries to the teachers of large schools; and what has been or is being done?
§ Mr. SHORTTI have received the resolution referred to. The White Paper presented to Parliament setting out the proposed allocation of the Supplementary Grant for primary education in Ireland laid down that the supplementary salary1004W to principals of large schools was to be granted to those who were highly efficient, and the question whether any modification should be made in this condition will presumably be considered by the Committee which it is proposed to establish to inquire into matters connected with the position of primary teachers in Ireland.