To ask the Minister for Education if he can explain how it is that several highly qualified lay secondary teachers are still in receipt from their schools of only £160 per annum, and whether he can say why such schools do not pay better salaries to their lay teachers.
CEISTEANNA—QUESTIONS. - SECONDARY TEACHERS.
TOMAS O CONAILL
MINISTER for EDUCATION (Professor Eoin MacNeill)
The employment by a school of a certain proportion of teachers at a minimum salary of £160 per annum was named as one of the conditions of participation in the Capitation Grant of 1919. Apart from this there is no legal provision for determining the salary to be paid to Secondary Teachers.