§ MR. NANNETTI () Dublin, College GreenTo ask the Secretary of State for War whether he will say what decision has been arrived at on the application from the labourers employed in the Ordnance Department, Dublin, for an increase in their wages, so as to bring it up to the standard paid to labourers in that district; and whether, seeing that a Departmental Order lays it down that labourers and others are to receive the market rate of pay of the district, and in view of the nature of their work, he will take such steps as will bring their wages up to the standard.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Brodrick.) From the information at the disposal of the War Department it does not appear that the labourers in question are underpaid, and accordingly no increase is contemplated.