§ MR. STACPOOLEasked the Secretary to the Treasury, in relation to the recent inquiry into the duties and salaries of the different departments of the Civil Service in Ireland, Whether, in cases where reductions have been made in the establishments, and consequent saving of expense, it is the intention of the Government to confer any benefit on the officers retained, by proposing any increase of their salaries?
§ MR. W. H. SMITHSir, in the cases in which reductions have been made in the different Departments of the Civil Service in Ireland, and additional duties have been imposed upon the officers who have been retained, their position and prospects have been generally improved, the salaries now assigned to them having been fixed after careful consideration of the claims of the officers and of the duties falling upon them.