§ Captain SHEEHANasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether he has received a number of resolutions from committees of agriculture and technical instruction in Ireland and other Irish public bodies requesting the extension of the existing rates of war bonus for the regular Civil Service to the whole-time officers of committees of agriculture and technical instruction in Ireland; whether the rates of war bonus paid in the year 1917 to whole-time officers of agriculture and technical instruction committees in Ireland was based on the war bonus scale adopted for the regular Civil Service in the same year; whether the war bonus scale for the regular Civil Service has been increased since 17th December, 1917; if the Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction for Ireland will be given sufficient additional funds in 1390W order to place whole-time officers of committees of agriculture and technical instruction in Ireland on. the same war bonus scale as is now in existence for the regular Civil Service; and if there is any reason for assuming that the cost of living for Civil servants is higher than for whole-time officers of committees of agriculture and technical instruction in Ireland?
§ Mr. SAMUELSThe Department of Agriculture have received a number of resolutions such as are referred to in the question of the hon. and gallant Member, and the matter is under consideration.