§ 68. Mr. BYRNEasked the Postmaster-General whether he is aware of the fact that a woman clerk of twenty-one months' service in the Savings Bank Department has been transferred as a woman clerk to Dublin when sixty-seven names stood before hers on the recognised list of applications for transfer to Dublin from the Savings Bank Department; and whether, in view of the fact that clerks are being released constantly from the Savings Bank Department for work in other departments, he will immediately release Irish women clerks from London whose names are the longest on the list to fill the six existing vacancies for women clerks in the Accountant - General's Department, Dublin?
§ Mr. ILLINGWORTHAs regards the first part of the hon. Member's question, I cannot add anything to the reply which I gave to a similar question by the hon. Member for North Somerset on the 8th instant. As regards the second part, owing to a rearrangement, it is not necessary to fill the vacancies on the class of women clerks.
§ Mr. BYRNEWill the right hon. Gentleman consider carefully the suggestion made in this question and treat these people fairly?