§ MR. YOUNG: (Cavan, E.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether the Local Government Board of Ireland propose to make arrangements, by regulation or otherwise, for securing to the Poor Law officials, other than dispensary doctors, similar annual holidays; and what is now the number of such annual holidays allowed to such doctors.
§ MR. G. W. BALFOURThe regulations with respect to the duties, etc., of 185 Union officers are now being revised by the Local Government Board, and the question of annual holidays to Poor Law officials will receive consideration in connection therewith. Under Article 28 of the new Dispensary Regulations annual vacation not exceeding four weeks is allowed to dispensary medical officers. No similar fixed rule has been hitherto laid down with respect to other Poor Law officials.