§ MR. JOHN O'CONNOR (Tipperary, S.)asked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Why the recommendation contained in the Report of the Royal Commission on Prisons in Ireland, as to an increase in the wages of warders, has not been carried out, such recommendation being as follows:
It therefore seems clear to us that a necessity for higher remuneration is created as well for the reasons above stated as by the fact of an improvement in the general rates of pay and wages in Ireland.
§ THE CHIEF SECRETARY (Mr. JOHN MORLEY) (Newcastle-on-Tyne)I have already stated that the Report of the Royal Commission on Prisons recommended the abolition of a considerable number of prisons and bridewells and the formation of a consolidated scheme. This is now in progress, and is expected to be before the Government shortly; but, pending its final settlement, the Treasury have declined to sanction increases of salaries generally, on the ground that new interests and claims would be thereby created on the part of many whose services it might be found necessary to dispense with under a consolidation scheme.