Expendi

ture on

Schools.

Expenditure on Schools and Teaching Staffs.*

39. As far as we have been able to ascertain, the aggregate annual Expenditure on the Schools from all sources, including Parliamentary Grant, School fees, and local subscriptions, amounted to £1,287,963 98. 11d., as shown in the following table. This would give an average of £2 138. 114d. for each child in average daily attendance during the year:

NOTE.-The amount, £25,303 11s. 7d., paid out of Vote for Board of Public Works for Buildings, Repairs, &c, of Vested Schools, is not included in this Section, neither is the amount, £29,347 2s. 9d., contributed from local sources towards the erection of New Buildings, &c., included (see page 20, Sec. 6), nor the Supplemental Capitation Grant, £9 16s. 10d., in respect of the years 1892 -6.

+ See Table D., page 65.

to Teach

40. The Amounts paid by the State in the Financial Year Payments 1903-1904 to the Teaching Staffs of the principal classes of ing Staffs of Day National Schools were as follows:

Principal
Classes of
Schools.

41. The payments to the Teaching staffs out of the funds placed at our disposal by Parliament were made under the follow- Various ing general heads:-(a) Salaries; (b) Capitation Grants.

kinds of

Payments.

Salaries,

&c.

The amount paid in 1903-1904 in Salaries, and Capitation Grants, to principal and assistant teachers, workmistresses, manual instructresses, pupil teachers, and monitors was £1,189,165 0s. 8d.† 42. The total income of the Teaching Staff (Day and Evening National Schools) from the State and from local sources, for the Total year was as follows:

£ 8. d.

(a.) From Vote for Primary Education (ordinary):

£

Income

Teaching

8. d. Staff. 1,190,332 19 3 or 98-2 per cent. 1,190,332 19 3

Salaries, &c.,

Subscriptions, &c., (exclusive of

Free Residences),‡

10

School Pence,

These totals differ from those given in paragraph 39. The difference is accounted for as follows:

This difference is the local expenditure on repairing the schoolhouses, &c.

55,053 6 7

• The payments to Evening Schools excluded from this Table amounted to £22,753 148. 8d.

+ Exclusive of Supplemental Capitation Grant, £9 16s. 10d. in respect of years 1892-6, and Retiring Gratuities, £1,167 188. 7d.

See Table D. page 65.

The expenditure from the vote on account of Pupil Teachers in the Model Schools amounts to £5,212,

Training Colleges.

Training

44. There are seven Training Colleges in operation and receiv-Colleges. ing Grants, viz. :

(1.) "Marlborough-street" (Dublin), for men and women, under our own management;

(2.) "St. Patrick's" (Drumcondra, Dublin), for men, and

(3.) "Our Lady of Mercy" (Carysfort Park, Blackrock, co. Dublin), for women, both under the management of His Grace the Most Rev. Dr. Walsh, Archbishop of Dublin;

(4.) "Church of Ireland" (Kildare-place, Dublin), for men and women, under the management of His Grace the Most Rev. Dr. Peacocke, Archbishop of Dublin ;

(5.) "De la Salle "(Waterford), for men, under the management of the Most Rev. Dr. Sheehan, Bishop of Waterford and Lismore.

(6.) "St. Mary's," Belfast, for women, under the management of the Most Rev. Dr. Henry, Bishop of Down and Connor.

(7.) "Mary Immaculate," Limerick, for women under the management of the Most Reverend Dr. O'Dwyer, Bishop of Limerick.

45. The following Table shows the number of Candidates for Admission to Training (One and Two Years' Courses) in 1903 in each of the Training Colleges, and the antecedents of those Idmitted to the Two Years' Course :