§ MR. DELANY (Queen's County, Ossory)To ask the Secretary to the Treasury if he will ask the Board of Works, Dublin, to explain how it is that the Secretary has instructed an ex-policeman to take the time each member of the staff returns from lunch, with the object of allowing only thirty minutes for the purpose; and, considering that this policy is not adopted by any office in the vicinity of Merrion Street, and that it is impossible to expect anyone situated as the staff of the Board of Works are, to go to an outside restaurant to obtain a lunch and return in half-an-hour, will he see that this practice advocated by the Secretary is discontinued.
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(Answered by Mr. Runciman.) The reference is no doubt to a temporary messenger in the department who has had meritorious service in the Royal Irish
‡See (4) Debates, clxix., 544.
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Constabulary. By order of the Board this officer takes the time at which each member of the staff returns from lunch. The interval of thirty minutes is that usually allowed throughout the public service.