§ Mr. EDWARD KELLYasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether, in view of the fact that the Irish Intermediate Commissions annually appoint as superintendents gentlemen who have no con- 577W nection with teaching or with secondary education and that, in consequence, many duly-qualified secondary teachers are unable to obtain such appointments, he will represent to the Commissioners the desirability of giving such appointments to duly-qualified secondary teachers only, so that moneys voted by Parliament for educational purposes may not be paid over to gentlemen selected by the Commissioners who are not engaged in any way in teaching?
§ Mr. SAMUELSFor many years it has been the policy of the Intermediate Education Board to appoint as superintendents when vacancies occurred only persons actually engaged in teaching. The great majority of the superintendents actually employed last year were teachers. The Board, however, have not seen fit to dispense with the services of supertendents who were appointed for the first time before they had adopted the policy of confining these positions to persons actually engaged in teaching.