§ MR. FIELDTo ask the Postmaster-General whether he will state the main details of the approximate total cost of having the Irish Savings Bank work done in London, and the main details of the approximate total cost if such work were done in Dublin.
(Answered by Mr. Sydney Buxton.) I regret that I am not in a position to furnish the hon. Member with the desired information.
§ MR. FIELDTo ask the Postmaster-General whether, seeing that several Savings Bank women clerks of Irish nationality, who had, or who had not, registered their names as desiring transfer to Dublin, were asked by the Savings Bank authorities, either privately or officially, some time before the present Government came into office, if they would be willing to serve in Dublin; that the average vacancies for women clerks in Dublin number only one or two a year; that several Savings Bank women clerks of Irish nationality had already registered their names as desiring transfer to Dublin; and that it is now officially denied that the late Government contemplated the transfer of the Irish Savings Bank work in Dublin, he will now say why such a number of Savings Bank women clerks were, at the time referred to, asked whether they would be willing to serve in Dublin.
(Answered by Mr. Sydney Buxton.) I cannot find that any such promise was given or implied.