Balance Sheet of 39. The following statement relative to the Pension Fund has been furnished to us by the Teachers' Pension Office: The Income and Expenditure of the Pension Fund during the year 1906 were as follows: £ s. d. £ s. d. INCOME:- One half-year's Interest on £1,300,000,* 19,500 0 0 The invested Capital of the Fund stood thus :- 1st January, 1906, Debt of the Church Temporalities £ s. d 1,800,000 0 0 Stock in hand, £971,088 16 4 The half-year's interest payable on 1st January, 1906, was paid over in December, 1905, and included in account for 1905. + NOTE. The sum of £18,000 Os. 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 40. 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 £1,399,432 38. 11d., as shown in the following table. This would give an average of £2 178. 34d. for each child in average daily attendance during the year. 41. We give here a table showing the expenditure from State grants on primary education during the past eight years. C Return showing for the past eight years the expenditure from State grants on primary education in Ireland. l'ayments to Teach 42. The amounts paid by the State in the financial year ing Staffs of 1906-1907 to the Teaching Staffs of the principal classes of Principal Classes of day National schools were as follows:— 43. RATES OF AWARDS 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, 1906.* The annual Capitation Grant is about 58. per unit of the average attendance. The grants for Special Subjects amounted to £16,678 10s. 2d. The grants for Evening School Instruction amounted to £11,556 98. 2d. "Marlborough-street "(Dublin), The Commissioners of National Education. "St. Patrick's" (Drumcondra, His Grace the Most Rev. W. J. 1 Sept., 1883 Dublin). "Our Lady of Mercy" (Carysfort "De la Salle" (Waterford), Walsh, D.D., Archbishop of "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 1906 in each of the Training colleges, and the antecedents of those admitted to the two years' course :— |