§ SIR T. ESMONDEI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury if he will state whether the attendants at the National Gallery in Dublin are paid at the same rate as those at the National Galleries in London and Edinburgh; and, if not, whether the Treasury will consider the advisability of placing the Irish attendants upon the same footing as the English and Scotch?
§ SIR J. T. HIBBERT(who replied): I cannot admit that any fair comparison can be drawn between the pay of porters in the Dublin National Gallery, the attendants in Edinburgh, and the porters in London: but I may say that, in view of comparisons which I have seen between the wages of the porters in the Dublin 87 National Gallery and those paid to similar persons by important private firms in Dublin, I am disposed to think that some moderate improvement in the former would be justifiable, and the matter is receiving attention.