Gay Mitchell
Question:299 Mr. G. Mitchell asked the Minister for Education and Science the reason his Department, as a matter of practice up to 1979, did not adhere to its own regulations in Memorandum V31, in admitting trainee technical school art teachers into the teacher qualifying examination, the principles of teaching art, and then withheld recognition from those who passed the examination until they complied with entry conditions to the examination which the Department itself did not adhere to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17269/00]