§ Mr. KINGasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland if he is aware that, notwithstanding a circular issued by the General Prisons Board in January, 1917, stating that the allowance of £10 will be extended to those officers at Maryborough who were not in receipt of it before, Warders Kilroy and Lilly, then serving at that prison, never received the allowances, and that £15 each are still due to these officers for the period served at Maryborough; and whether their applications for the amounts have been considered and replies given?
§ Mr. SHORTTNo such circular as that alleged in the question has been issued by the General Prisons Board. Warders Kilroy and Lilly were employed at Maryborough Prison as supernumerary ordinary warders, and they applied for the special allowance granted to warders on the established staff of that prison, but as they did not form part of the established staff they could not be paid the allowance. No sum is due to them, and they are no longer employed at Maryborough Prison, having been transferred elsewhere in July, 1917.