§ Mr. M'GUFFINasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether, in the revision of salaries of Irish prison officials, he will consider the claims of prison clerks, seeing 1915W that these officials are appointed not as in English prisons by examination but by promotion from lower grades of service; and whether he is aware that their exclusion from the benefits of this revision is occasioning these officials a loss of from £80 to £90 per year?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONI understand that these officers are at present on a scale practically equivalent to that of the Class I. Clerks in the English prison service. All the circumstances were carefully considered, and I regret I can hold out no hope for an alteration in the decision.