§ MR. J. P. NANNETTI (Dublin, College Green)To ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether the recent memorial from Assistant Clerks (New Class), asking that their present salaries be levelled up to what they would have been were the new incremental rate in operation at the commencement of their services, is receiving the attention of the Treasury; and, in view of the fact that a similar concession was granted to the clerks in the Office of Woods a few years ago, and that there are at present Assistant Clerks (New Class) of from six to eleven years service, who are married and otherwise, and who are only in receipt of salaries ranging from £72 to £85 per annum, while new entrants after the 1st April, 1905, will receive salaries ranging from £80 to £105 per annum after similar length of service, a difference of from £8 to £20 per annum, he will take early steps to grant this concession to Assistant Clerks, as little additional expenditure would be involved in so doing.
(Answered by Mr. McKenna.) The memorials in question are under consideration and I am not yet able to announce a decision. I may, however, mention that the case of the clerks in the Office of Woods referred to in he Question is not parallel, as was explained by my predecessors in answer to a Question on the 12th July last.†