§ Mr. MacVEAGHasked when an appointment will be made to the vacant post for a civilian superintending engineer for the North of Ireland, or if, despite the protests made against the employment of Royal Engineers on Post Office engineering work, the whole Post Office engineering service in Ireland has now been placed under the control of a Major of the Royal Engineers on active service?
§ Mr. HERBERT SAMUELIt has been found conducive to efficiency in the service to treat Ireland as one superintending engineer's district. That superintending engineer will be the Royal Engineer officer who has hitherto been in charge of the southern district in Ireland. I am not unmindful of the assurance which I gave to the hon. Member on the 15th March last, and care will be taken that the proportion of civilian to military appointments to the engineering staff in Ireland shall not be reduced.