§ MR. MEAGHER (Kilkenny, N.)I beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board whether applications have been made to the Royal Commission on Poor Laws by Irish Poor Law officers for payment for the work entailed in the preparation of the Census I Returns required by them in the year 1906; whether he will see his way to recommend payment to those officers who requested it at the time they were furnishing the information; and whether, in the event of further information being required by the Commission in any part of the United Kingdom, provision will be made for remuneration to the officers affected.
§ MR. JOHN BURNSI understand that applications of the kind referred to have been made to the Royal Commission. 701 It would not come within my province to make recommendations to the Commission with regard to Irish Poor Law officers; but I am informed that the Commission are not at present able to say that further information may not be called for by them, and that they have deferred the question of any remuneration until this has been ascertained.