§ Mr. TOOTILLasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether the weekly rest day and eight-hour day applies to principal and other warders permanently employed in offices and stores in the Irish 468W prisons service; whether governors, by keeping those officers on duty or permitting them to remain on duty for any number of hours over and above a 48-hour week, are bound to compensate them for overtime; if he will now take steps to ensure that in future such officers shall have the principle of the weekly rest day and eight-hour day applied to them as in the case of their comrade officers; and whether he will state in detail the exact number of rest days, excluding Sundays, which officers employed as clerks or store warders in each of the Irish major prisons have been granted since 1st April last and the exact number of those days that they have been actually off duty during the same period?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONThe relaxations referred to in the first part of the question apply to all officers. Officers are entitled to an equivalent for overtime in excess of 48 hours weekly. The General Prisons Board are not aware of any officers having been deprived of the authorised relaxations.