§ Mr. JOYCEasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether his attention has been called to the fact that the lock-keepers on the Grand Canal, Ireland, are employed under the Irish Board of Works; and, if this is so, if he can say whether those lock-keepers come under the category of Civil Servants, seeing that they are pensionable?
§ Mr. BALDWINThe lock-keepers on the Grand Canal are in the employment of the Grand Canal Company and not of the Board of Works. The hon. Member is, however, perhaps referring to the lock-keepers on the canal between Killaloe and Limerick, about whom he asked a question on the 21st June. These men are not Civil Servants, their salaries and pensions not being provided out of moneys voted by Parliament, but out of the Shannon Navigation Funds.