With your permission, Sir, there is a matter I should like to mention very briefly. When speaking on the Agricultural Workers (Holidays) Bill last Thursday——
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Deputy's Personal Explanation.
Is this a personal explanation?
Yes. Speaking on what I regarded as reliable information, I said that typists who work for solicitors were asked to work for 15/-and 20/- per week and were expected to pay their bus fares and for their lunch out of that. Since then I have received letters from the Dublin Bar Solicitors' Association and the Southern Law Association, Cork, taking exception to my remarks. I was not aware until it was pointed out to me by the Southern Law Association that the Labour Court had fixed a wage of 25/- a week for solicitors' typists, and I want to apologise to solicitors and the associations.
A Deputy
They will not be long making a fortune with that.