§ Mr. SITCHasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether he will seek Treasury sanction to allow cost of postage to the Irish Prison Officers' Representative Council for circulating to the Service matters in connection with the Council, as is the case with the English Prison Officers' Representative Board; and will he also grant permission for the free issue of stationery to the elected representative of each prison when writing in connection with matters relating to the Representative Council, as also obtains in England?
§ Mr. MACPHERSONThe practice obtaining in England in this matter is not correctly represented in the question. Certain allowances in the shape of stationery and in respect of postage are made in England to the chairman only of the Prison Officers' Representative Board. I am making enquiry as to the practicability of granting similar privilege in Ireland.