Captain CRAIGasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether he is aware that it was proved in evidence before the Viceregal Committee on Primary Education, Ireland, that the average pension for male national school teachers in Ireland is £48, and for women £36; and whether, in view of the inadequacy of these sums to the present cost of living, and the fact that nearly all of these old teachers are living under starvation conditions, and some of them have had to have recourse to the old-age pension, he will see that steps are taken at once to revise, the scale of pensions so as to meet existing conditions?
§ Mr. HENRYI would refer my hon. and gallant Friend to the reply given on the 13th May by the Financial Secretary of the Treasury to the question on the subject asked by the hon. Member for the Victoria Division of Belfast (Mr. Donald).
§ Mr. MOLESasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether the cash and stocks in the Irish Teachers' Pension Fund now amounts to £2,500,000; whether, in view of the straitened circumstances in which these pensioners are trying to exist, he will accede to the memorial presented by them asking that out of this fund, to which they contributed, there shall be granted to them an allowance of £1 for each year of service to those who have less than £100 per year, and 15s. to those having £100 or over for every year of service since appointed under the National Board, as well as the return of premiums; and that this arrangement be 2392W brought into force from April, 1919, similarly to the English and Scottish schemes?
§ Mr. HENRYI would refer my hon. and gallant Friend to the reply given on the 13th May by the Financial Secretary of the Treasury to the question on the subject asked by the hon. Member for the Victoria Division of Belfast (Mr. Donald).