§ MR. CALLAN (for Mr. GRAY)asked the Secretary to the Treasury, Whether he is aware that under present arrangements the citizens of Dublin pay twice over a large proportion of the salary of every policeman employed by the local authority in sanitary duty, first, through the police tax, and second by having to pay the full salary and cost of clothing of every policeman so employed, no allowance being made for the proportion already received by the Treasury in the former shape; and, whether he will give directions to have this injustice remedied?
§ SIR HENRY SELWIN-IBBETSONThe Question referred to has been fully investigated by the Irish Government and the Treasury, and the conclusion come to has been that there is no injustice in charging to the Corporation of Dublin the full salary and cost of clothing of the police employed on sanitary duty. The addition of these men to the police force makes no addition to the amount of the police tax, which has remained unchanged since 1837. The increased expenditure for these men falls 979 wholly on the Vote, not on the ratepayers; and as they are maintained solely for the use of the Corporation, it is only right the Corporation should pay the total cost.