§ Mr. MacVEAGHasked the Attorney-General for Ireland on what principle the majority of the organising staff of the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland, who are established Civil servants, are being deprived of the 20 per cent. of salary bonus awarded from the 1st 56W April last to other Civil servants; whether he is aware that the reason given by the Lords of the Treasury for withholdling the bonus is that these organisers received increases of salary under the Duke Grant; and, in view of the fact that the junior inspectors of national schools, ireland, who also received increases of salary under the Duke Grant, are receiving the 20 per cent. bonus in addition, why has this discrimination been made in the case of the members of the organising staff?
§ Mr. DENIS HENRYThe representations made in the question are correct. The facts of the case were submitted by the Commissioners of National Education for the consideration of the Treasury, with a strong recommendation that the benefit in the matter of war bonus of an equivalent of 20 per cent. of the ordinary salary, as sanctioned for Civil servants generally whose salaries were fixed on a pre-war basis should be allowed to all members of the organising staff. The Treasury, however, declined to act upon this recommendation in ease of organisers whose scale of ordinary salary was revised from 1st April, 1917, but with a view to meeting the considerations urged by the Commissioners they sanctioned the Grant to each of these officers of a special increment or ordinary salary with effect from 1st April, 1919.