MR. MACARTNEYasked the Secretary to the Treasury, Whether a scheme has yet been drawn up for arranging a system of payment to the medical officers of prisons in Ireland, who, being at the same time surgeons of the county infirmaries, have since the handing over of the prisons to Government, been performing the duties of medical officers of such prisons without any remuneration; 1852 and, if so, whether those medical officers are to receive payment for their services from the date of the transfer of the prisons from the county to the Government authorities?
§ SIR HENRY SELWIN-IBBETSONMr. Speaker, in answer to the hon. Member for Tyrone, I may say that a scheme has been drawn up by the Irish Government, and approved by the Treasury, for the payment of Medical Officers of Prisons in Ireland, and that the remuneration fixed by that scheme will be paid from the date of the transfer of the prisons to the Government.