asked the Minister for Lands if he will consider giving forestry gangers and workers employed by his Department in North Tipperary the same rates of wages and conditions as apply to gangers and workers employed by the North Tipperary County Council.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - North Tipperary Forestry Workers.
The wage structure of forestry labourers is at present under active consideration and I am not in a position to make a statement at this stage. This reply applies equally to head labourers who perform certain supervisory duties—there is no grade of forestry ganger and the duties of head labourers are not analogous to those of county council gangers.
Is the Minister aware that the forestry workers in North Tipperary have two different rates of pay?
As I have said to the Deputy, the whole wage structure is under examination.
Is the Minister aware that forestry workers, both gangers and forestry hands, are getting two different rates of pay in North Tipperary?
I shall bear what the Deputy says in mind.