§ MR. HAZLETON (Galway, N.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether he will state the names, length of service, salaries, and qualifying examinations of the seventeen or more staff officers of the Public Works Office, Ireland; and whether he will explain the meaning of the words staff officers as applied to these gentlemen.
(Answered by Mr. Hobhouse.) There are seventeen staff officers in the Board of Works whose scales of salary range from £150–10–250 to £350–15–450, and their length of service from twelve to thirty years. Particulars are given in the Estimates; and I think that no useful purpose would be served by giving the details of each officer's case. All of them entered the service as Second Division clerks by open competitive examination. A staff officer is in charge of a section of the clerical work of the office and of the subordinate staff engaged upon it.