§ MR. STEADMANI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether he is aware that the recommendations of the Tweedmouth Committee regarding lavatory accommodation on travelling post offices have not yet been made effective in Ireland, and that at present there are no lavatories attached to Irish travelling post offices; and whether, pending the carrying out of the Tweedmouth recommendation, any provisional arrangements in this matter could be made, and could he state definitely when the recommendation would become operative.
§ MR. HANBURYAs stated in answer to a similar question put by the hon. Member for Kilkenny on the 18th May last, lavatory accommodation is being provided in certain new mail carriages now being constructed in Ireland, but it is proposed not to provide it in the carnages at present in use until it is seen whether the accommodation is appreciated by the sorters in the new carriages. In a number of cases in which such accommodation has been afforded in England, the men, although they asked for it in the first instance, have, after experience, applied that it might be withdrawn.