§ 67. Mr. BYRNEasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland if he is aware of the wages paid to attendants employed in Central Asylum, Dundrum, county Dublin; if the wages for first-class attendants is £52 a year, second-class attendants £42 a year, and third class £30 a year; if the majority of these are married men with families; and if he will see that they are paid the same rates as in England, which is first class £70, second class £52, and third class £40, with increased war bonuses?
§ Mr. DUKEThe initial wages of the respective grades of attendants (exclusive of war bonus and allowances, which are the same in all cases) are as stated, except that the second class in English asylums commence at £50, not £52. The majority of attendants in the Dundrum Asylum are married men with families. The rates of remuneration for all kinds of labour of this class are higher in England than in Ireland, and the wages of the Dundrum Asylum attendants are much higher than those of the Irish District Asylum attendants.
§ Mr. BYRNEDoes the right hon. Gentleman consider £42 a year a proper salary for a married man, and can he say when these men are to be placed on the same level as men doing similar work in England?
Mr. T. WILSONIs the right hon. Gentleman aware that the cost of living, for all intents and purposes, is as high in Ireland as in England?