§ Mr. DEVLINasked the Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware that the temporary lady clerks in the offices of the National Board of Education, Dublin, have not received the increase of 20 per cent. on all salaries awarded by the Treasury; whether, of the two last bonuses, these clerks did not get the first one, dated from 1st July, 1918, but got the second one, given in December, 1918, though the lady clerks in other Government offices in Dublin received both bonuses; and whether he will now have the matter rectified?
§ Mr. BALDWINThe increase of 20 per cent. of salary referred to in the first part of the question is payable only to permanent Civil servants whose salaries are fixed on a pre-war basis. It is not payable to temporary employés engaged during the War, whose remuneration has been settled from time to time on the basis of present conditions, the last general increase in Dublin offices dating from the 1st November last. The temporary women clerks in the National Education Office are in the same position in this respect as temporary women clerks in other offices.
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