§ MR. CAREW (Meath, S.)I beg to ask Mr. Attorney General for Ireland whether all the officers including the doctors, the apothecaries (who in most cases are also the treasurers), matrons, nurses, and porters to the different county infirmaries in Ireland, who on the passing of the Local Government Act of 1898 were transferred to the County Councils, are entitled to pensions under the existing regulations.
§ THE ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR IRELAND (Mr. ATKINSON, Londonderry, N.)Officers of county infirmaries were not officers of the Grand Juries and were not transferred to the County Councils by the Local Government Act, 1898. The rights of existing officers of these institutions are preserved by section 15, sub-section 8, of the Act, but apparently no right to pension on retirement existed prior to the Act and no such right is conferred by it.