To ask the Minister for Finance whether he is aware that in the Salary Agreement, No. A. 82, of November 29th, 1920, provision for new Scales of Salaries for National Teachers, and signed by the Civil Service Arbitration Board, the Representatives of the British Treasury, the Commissioners of National Education, and the Teachers' Organisation, a clause occurs under Section IX. as follows:—
"The question of awarding a bonus to teachers in the first division of first class shall be held over for consideration by the Commissioners, who will make a suitable recommendation to the Treasury on the subject."
Whether he is further aware that the Commissioners of National Education, after fully considering the matter, made the required recommendation to the Treasury early in 1921; that, in accordance with such recommendation, teachers having these special qualifications were to receive an annual bonus of £20 and £10 respectively, according as their services were regarded as "Highly Efficient or Efficient," whether the question of the payment of this bonus was not still under consideration at the time of the transfer of British Government Departments in 1922, and whether his Department, as the successors of the British Treasury, will now carry out the terms of the agreement signed by the British Treasury Representative, and have these bonuses paid forthwith, together with arrears accruing to date.