§ MR. W. KENNY (Dublin, St. Stephen's Green)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury if he is aware that the students' fees referred to at page 346 of the Civil Service Estimates 1099 for 1893–4, as received by the Professors of the Royal College of Science, Dublin, are not paid directly to the Professors, but are transmitted through the Science and Art Department, Kensington, to the Treasury; that these fees are then apportioned amongst the Professors and are remitted to them by drafts on the Paymaster General, less one-tenth retained by the Treasury and Income Tax; and if he will explain why these fees do not appear in the Appropriation Accounts as extra receipts, and how the pensionable rights of these Professors differ in substance from those of the Professors of Queen's Colleges in Ireland in respect of students' fees?
§ SIR J. T. HIBBERTThe hon. Member is misinformed. These fees are not transmitted to the Treasury, nor are they paid by the Treasury to the Professors; nor, finally, are they paid into the Exchequer or appropriated in aid of voted moneys. For these reasons no pensions can legally be awarded in respect of them. The case is entirely different with the students' fees at the Queen's Colleges. Those fees are appropriated in aid of voted moneys, and an equivalent sum is provided in the Estimate and paid thereout to the Professors. Accordingly, pension is properly calculated upon the sums received by the Professors.