§ MR. ERRINGTONasked the Secretary to the Treasury, Whether the General Prisons Board (Ireland) has submitted to the Treasury any proposals for increasing, under the provisions of the Prisons Act, the pay of the surgeons of county infirmaries in proportion to the considerably increased duties thrown on them by that Act; and, whether, as these surgeons have, in spite of the repeated applications to the General Prisons Board within the last twelve months, been performing these increased duties without extra pay, he can hold out a hope that the sanction of the Treasury will be given without further delay to a reasonable increase in their salaries?
§ SIR HENRY SELWIN-IBBETSONSir, in answer to the hon. Member for Longford, I can say that it is only within the last two or three days that the Irish Government have submitted to the Treasury proposals for the remuneration of medical officers in Irish prisons. I have not yet had an opportunity of examining them properly, and therefore I cannot give information as to what effect they may have on the pay of surgeons of county infirmaries in Ireland. I assure the hon. Gentleman I shall lose no time in looking at these proposals and coming to a conclusion, and I hope before long to settle the question.