To ask the Minister for Education whether there is a growing practice among the heads of secondary schools of dismissing registered teachers in order to make room for nonregistered teachers, whom they can employ at lower salaries, even though an ample supply of registered teachers is available, and whether he agrees that such a practice is deleterious to Irish secondary education.
CEISTEANNA—QUESTIONS. - DISMISSALS OF REGISTERED TEACHERS IN SECONDARY SCHOOLS.
There is no official information available to show that such a practice exists. Statistics furnished by the office of Intermediate Education go to show that the number of registered teachers employed in Intermediate schools in 1921-22 exceeded the number for the preceding year by about 200.