§ MR. HUDSONI beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade if his attention has been called to the number of hours worked by trainmen on the Midland Great Western Railway (Ireland); and whether the company have given any and, if any, what explanation why men were kept on duty on goods trains on the 16th and 17th of the present month for a period of over thirty-four hours, with a less interval than eight hours for rest.
§ MR. LLOYD-GEORGEInquiry is being made as to the hours of work to which the hon. Member calls attention, and I will inform him of the result.