To ask the Minister for Local Government if whole-time teachers and manual instructors engaged in Industrial and Reformatory Schools are entitled to pensions or retiring allowances when compelled to retire owing to age or disablement; if not, will he say what steps, if any, it is proposed to take to provide such pensions or allowances.
CEISTEANNA—QUESTIONS. - TEACHERS IN INDUSTRIAL AND REFORMATORY SCHOOLS.
TOMAS O CONAILL
Mr. BLYTHE
The terms of employment of whole-time teachers and manual instructors engaged in Reformatory and Industrial Schools are a matter of arrangement between the teachers and instructors and the manager of the schools. Section 56 of the Children Act, 1908, provides for the payment of pensions to officers of the school who become incapable of discharging their duties by reason of permanent infirmity or of old age. It is understood that the financial position of the schools has not hitherto admitted of payment of such pensions. The whole question of the law as contained in the Children Act and the relations thereto of these schools is at present under consideration.