I move: "That a Supplementary sum, not exceeding £10, be granted to defray the charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1924, for the salaries, allowances, and expenses of various County Court Officers, bonus to Chairman of Quarter Sessions and Recorders, and to Clerks of the Crown and Peace, and the expenses of revision."
This Supplementary Estimate is taken to make provision for the payment of the deputy County Court Judges who acted for County Court Judge Hynes. The normal method of payment of a deputy is by means of a deduction from the salary of the County Court Judge who is unable to act (Section 7 of the Civil Bill Courts (Ireland) Act, 1851). It was not considered very advisable, for political reasons, to send Judge Hynes to Co. Cork, but as the Judge was willing to act, it was impossible to deduct the remuneration of his deputy from the Judge's salary. Payment of the amount of the remuneration accordingly fell upon the Vote. The amount is larger than it otherwise would have been owing to extra sittings to dispose of compensation cases. The remuneration is at the rate of seven guineas a day for each day that each deputy sits. The savings under other sub-heads are really savings in connection with the payment of bailiffs in various parts of the country.
