§ MR. WALTER LONGI beg to ask the Vice-President of the Department of Agriculture (Ireland) whether it was upon his recommendation that the salary of the secretary of the Department has been increased from £1,300 to £1,500 per annum, and what are the reasons for the increase.
§ MR. T. W. RUSSELLThe Answer to the first part of the Question is in the affirmative. The salary was increased by the sum stated in order to make it more nearly commensurate with the exceedingly onerous responsibilities of the office, which are not less than those of the 1266 permanent heads of other great Departments of State on which the official constitution of the Department has been modelled and in which a higher scale of salary obtains.