Balance

38. The following statement relative to the Pension Fund Sheet of has been furnished to us by the Teachers' Pension Office :

Teachers

Pension

Fund.

:

The Income and Expenditure of the Pension Fund during the year 1907 were as follows:

£ s. d.

£

s. d.

INCOME:-

Two half-year's Interest on £1,300,000, 39,000 0 0

The invested Capital of the Fund stood thus :

1st January, 1907, Debt of the Church Temporalities
Fund,

£ s. d

1,300,000 0 0

NOTE. The sum of £18,000 0s. Od. in aid of the Teachers' Pension Fund was paid

over by us within the year to the Fund.

Expenditure on the Schools and the Teaching
Staffs for the Year 1907.

39. As far as we have been able to ascertain the expenditure on the Schools and the payments to the teaching staffs, from all sources amounted to £1,410,449 4s. 3d., as shown in the following table, This would give an average of £2 18s. 8d. for each child in average daily attendance during the year.

Total expenditure on the schools and teaching staff's

Rate per pupil from (a) State Grants
Rate per pupil from (b) Local Sources

Rate per pupil from all Sources,

61,518 6 0

37,690 5 2

118,713 19

1

40. Expenditure from State Grants on Primary Education in Ireland, from 1899-1900 to 1907-8.

41. The amounts paid by the State in the financial year 1907-1908 to the Teaching Staffs of the principal classes of day National schools were as follows:

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42. RATES OF SALARY from STATE SOURCES alone (exclusive of the Annual Capitation Grant, grants for Special Subjects, and fees for Evening School Instruction) for the PRINCIPAL and ASSISTANT TEACHERS in the Service, on the 31st December, 1907.*

The annual Capitation Grant is about 58. per unit of the average attendance.

NOTE.-A sum of £114,000 has been voted recently by Parliament in augmentation of the salaries of the teachers.

43. Classification of Schools inspected during the year 1907.

Excellent. Very Good. Good. Falr. Middling. Bad. Total.

165

'Marlborough-street "(Dublin), The Commissioners of National

Education.

"St. Patrick's" (Drumcondra, His Grace the Most Rev. W. J. 1 Sept., 1883
Dublin).
Walsh, D.D., Archbishop of
Dublin,

"St. Mary's" (Belfast),

Pro tem:- The Very Rev. H. 1 Sept., 1900
Laverty. D.D., P.P., St. Matthew's,
Ballymacarrett, Belfast.

"Mary Immaculate" (Limerick) The Most Rev. E. T. O'Dwyer, 1 Sept., 1901

D.D., Bishop of Limerick.

45. The following Table shows the number of candidates for admission to training (one and two years' courses) in 1907 in each of the Training colleges and the antecedents of those admitted to the two years' course: