I; beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether his attention has been called to resolutions passed by the Irish Protestant National Teachers' Union, with reference to the power of managers to dismiss teachers without assigning a reason; and whether he intends to take any action in the matter.

My attention has been directed to these resolutions, and I propose that the first of them should be communicated to the Commissioners of National Education with an expression of the Irish Government's opinion that, if it is at all possible, effect should be given to the desire of these teachers for some protection against arbitrary dismissal.