§ MR. SWIFT MACNEILLTo ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he is aware that the incomes of the professors in the Queen's Colleges, who, being equally distinguished in literature and science and doing the same work as the Fellows of Trinity College, Dublin, are paid by the State, on the average, less than half the incomes of those Fellows; and that these gentlemen never receive more on retirement than two-thirds of their existing salaries, while Trinity College pays to this class of its superannuated teachers a minimum salary of £1,400, amounting in all to between one third and one-fourth of its total revenue; and why are the incomes of the Queen's College professors, who are in the service of the British Government, less than the incomes paid to its Fellows by Trinity College, Dublin, which finds itself in want of funds to provide the equipment necessary for modern requirements.
(Answered by Mr. Wyndham.) The retiring allowances payable to professors in Queen's Colleges are regulated by statute. I have no information as to the incomes and retiring, allowances of Fellows of Trinity College.