To ask the Minister for Education whether he is aware that teachers who served as substitutes for teachers who joined the British military forces during the period of the European War have not had such service reckoned for purposes of increment, and whether he will take steps to have this matter rectified; further, if he will state the number of national teachers now in the service of the Ministry who acted as such substitutes.
CEISTEANNA—QUESTIONS. - TEACHERS' SUBSTITUTES DURING WAR PERIOD.
The British Treasury refused to recognise for the purpose of increments, pension, etc., service rendered as substitute for a teacher on Military Service, except in the case of substitutes ineligible for Military Service. The number of teachers adversely affected by this regulation is 28. Their position has already been considered, and it has been decided (September 8th) to grant all teachers who acted as substitutes during the period in question the recognition then accorded to teachers unfit for Military Service, subject to the condition that the Ministry accepts no financial liability in this matter for the period prior to April 1st, 1922.