asked the Minister for Education the number of (a) trained and (b) untrained teachers employed by his Department in primary schools within the State.

The number of trained and untrained teachers serving in primary schools on the 30th June, 1967—the latest year for which figures are available—was as follows:—

66.

asked the Minister for Education the number of primary schools at which untrained teachers are employed.

There are 1,398 primary schools in the State in which untrained teachers are employed. This figure includes 267 convent and monastery schools where the majority of the untrained are merely religious novices who normally spend a few years teaching in an untrained capacity before entering a training college.