§ MR. NANNETTI (Dublin, College Green)I beg to ask the Postmaster-General if he is aware that, under the new leave regulations introduced January, 1903, into the Dublin Sorting Office, payment for bank holidays was withheld and the privilege of having a day off when it suited, in lieu of bank holiday, withdrawn; and whether, seeing that this was an abrogation of the accepted recommendation of the Tweedmouth Commission regarding bank holidays, will he consider the advisability of reverting to the old system.
§ THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL (Mr. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN,) Worcestershire, E.Payment is still made at Dublin for bank holiday work when the hours worked are too few to justify the granting of a day in lieu. The present system is a necessary condition of the arrangements under which the entire force are enabled to take the bulk of their holidays in the better months of the year, and I am not prepared to revert to the old system.