§ MR. T. M. HEALYI beg to ask the President of the Board of Agriculture by how many has the staff of the Irish Ordnance Survey been diminished within the last five years, and by how many has the Southampton staff been increased; was it in Southampton or in Dublin that the maps connected with the Report of the Trinity College Commission were prepared, and who selected the place where the work should be done.
§ *THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE (Mr. AILWYN FELLOWES, Huntingdonshire, Ramsey)The number of men employed at the Ordnance Survey Office in Phœnix Park is now 250, as compared with 282 five years ago, but the aggregate number employed on survey work in Ireland as a whole has increased from 924 to 1,154 during that period. The Survey staff at Southampton has been reduced by 145, viz., from 922 to 777, during the last five years. The maps connected with the Report of the Trinity College Commission were printed at Southampton, some of them being too large for the printing machine at Dublin. The Director-General of the Survey is responsible for the division of the work as between the two offices.
§ MR. T. M. HEALYSurely that demonstrates the necessity for improved machinery at Dublin?
§ MR. CLANCYWhy has work been taken away from Ireland?
§ *MR. AILWYN FELLOWESOn the contrary, the figures show that the work in Dublin has increased during the last five years