§ MR. JOYCEI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware that the following men got pensions from the Irish Board of Works: T. P. L. Crosthwaite, engineer; James Gulley, lock keeper; Daniel Morgan, lock keeper and collector; Cornelius Hogan, lock keeper and collector; and Mr. Bushel, also a lock keeper; and will he say what was the yearly pension in each case; and whether, taking all the circumstances into account, the claim of Robert M'Conkey, who was overseer of 210 miles of the Shannon for a long term of years, will be considered with a view to granting him a pension.
§ THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. MCKENNA, Monmouth, N.)The pensions referred to are as follow:—
£ s. d. Mr. T. P. S. Crosthwaite, M.I.C.E., inspector 125 0 0 M. J. Gulley, lock-keeper 24 6 8 D. Morgan, Collector and lock keeper 56 0 0 C. Hogan, collector and lock-keeper 33 6 8 P. Bushell, lock-keeper 13 10 0
§ (Bushell's pension has been suspended, as he has regained his health and has been re-employed at his own request.)
§ The largest gratuity which the rules permit has been granted to M'Conkey, and I am not prepared to make an exception in his case to the unbroken practice of treating overseers on the Shannon Navigation as not entitled to pension.