asked the Minister for Education whether he is aware that a comprehensive statement dealing with the question of inspection was submitted to the Minister for Education by the Executive of the National Teachers' Organisation in September, 1931; that the I.N.T.O. representatives discussed the contents of this statement with the Minister and his officials in November, 1931, at an interview lasting several hours; that at the conclusion of this interview the teachers were informed that a considered reply to their representations would be sent them in due course; that, no reply having been received up to March, 1933, the attention of the present Minister was drawn to this statement and a reply requested; that repeated demands have since been made for a reply without avail, and if he will state whether, or not, it is his intention to forward the considered reply promised by the Department and how soon he proposes to issue it.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - I.N.T.O. Statement re School Inspection.
The statement submitted by the Executive of the National Teachers' Organisation during the late Administration raised the whole question of the inspection of primary schools under the new regulations which followed on the Report of the Committee on Inspection of Primary Schools. This is one of the problems which I have been examining in detail since I became responsible for primary education, and I hope, at an early date, to be in a position to communicate with the teachers' executive in regard to the whole matter.