§ MR. GREERasked the Secretary to the Treasury, Whether the Treasury have not heretofore allowed the clerks in the Registry of Deeds. Ireland, thirty-six days annual leave; whether, although an Act, entitled "The Registry of Deeds (Ireland) Holidays Act," was passed last Session for the purpose of granting the officials four additional holidays, namely, Easter Monday, Whit Monday, and the two weekdays next after Christmas Day, the Registrar of Deeds has informed the staff that he has been directed to deduct these four statutory holidays from those thirty-six days; whether the late Sir Dominick Corrigan and the Royal Commissioners have reported on the unhealthiness of the Department; whether retirements from this cause have recently taken place; and, whether, in view of these circumstances, any steps will be taken to preserve to the clerks their full annual leave of thirty-six days in addition to the four days granted by Parliament?
§ MR. COURTNEYI need only add to my former answers on this matter that we have no reason to believe that any clerks in the Deeds Registry have had their health injured by the state of the building, the defects in which have long since been remedied. The other parts of the hon. Member's Question have been already answered.