§ Sir A. SPROTasked the Chief Secretary if partially-disabled men, who are employed on building construction work 639W at Clontarf and Killister, county Dublin, and who are obliged to see a doctor and seek medical relief from time to time, are subject to stoppage of their pay during their compulsory absence when seeing a doctor; whether this is contrary to the conditions of employment laid down by the Government; and whether he will give suitable directions on this subject to the contractors who are carrying out these works?
§ Sir H. GREENWOODI have only just received the following telegraphic report in regard to this matter—
In connection with the building works at Killister which are being carried out under the Local Government Board's supervision, no application has so far been received from ex-service men employed for leave of absence for the purpose of obtaining medical treatment. In every case, however, upon an ex-service man receiving notice to attend a Medical Board, he is, on production of summons, allowed leave of absence and is paid in full. The building works at Clontarf are carried out by a firm of contractors, and it is not known definitely what policy is pursued in the case of ex-service men seeking medical treatment during working hours; but it is understood that the practice in the case of men summoned before a Medical Board is the same as that followed by the Board in the case of Killister works.