asked the Minister for Education if he will state the number of registered lay secondary teachers at present in receipt of not less than the appropriate minimum salary of the salaries scheme for secondary teachers and the number not in receipt of the appropriate minimum; and if he will state the number of registered lay secondary teachers whose salaries, as paid by the managers of the schools in which they are employed, have been (a) increased, (b) decreased, as from the commencement of the current school year.
CEISTEANNA—QUESTIONS. ORAL ANSWERS. - LAY SECONDARY TEACHERS—AMOUNT OF SALARIES.
My Department does not require any return from Secondary Schools regarding the salaries paid by them to those of their teachers who are priests or members of Religious Orders, and the figures given in this reply refer to teachers not included in the classes named.
1. The number of registered teachers in receipt of salaries not less than the minimum is 393, and the number in receipt of salaries less than the minimum is 127.
2. (a) The number of teachers whose salaries have been increased is 117; (b) the number whose salaries have been reduced is 11.
Will the Minister tell us what is meant by less than the minimum?
Less than £200; that is the basic salary.