To ask the President to furnish a statement showing the names, offices, and salaries of the chief administrative and technical officers loaned by the British Government to the Irish Government for the purpose of advising on the setting up of new departments, or re-arrangement of old departments, under the following Ministries—Finance, Post Office, Local Government, Trade and Commerce; whether such officers are receiving remuneration from the Irish Government in respect of the advisory duties in addition to the salaries to which they are entitled from the British Government; when it is anticipated that the period of their advisory services shall end, and if it is intended, in any or all cases, to take such officers into the permanent service of the Irish Government.
CEISTEANNA—QUESTIONS. - OFFICERS LOANED BY BRITISH GOVERNMENT.
LIAM de ROISTE
There are five such officers in the Ministry of Finance, one in the Post Office, and one in the Ministry of Trade and Commerce who have been lent by the British Government. There is none in the Ministry of Local Government. I am communicating with the Deputy giving him the particulars he asks for in regard to these officers. I am not in a position at present to say when the period of their loan will terminate or whether any of them will be taken into the permanent service of the Free State.
LIAM de ROISTE
There is no answer to the part of the question as regards the extra remuneration.
I will answer that in the statement I am furnishing to the Deputy.