To ask the Minister for Defence to state the rate of pay and allowances to the various trades and ranks in the Army, also the conditions of service?
CEISTEANNA—QUESTIONS. - PAY OF ARMY RANKS.
The daily rates of pay at present are:—Company Sergeant, 4/9; Sergeant, 4/3; Corporal, 3/9, and Private, 3/6.
When living out of barracks a daily allowance of 4/- is payable. Dependents' Allowances are 4/- for wife, and 1/6, 1/- and 9d. for first, second, and third and other children, respectively.
Skilled soldier tradesmen receive 3/- per day in addition to ordinary pay, and other tradesmen 2/- per day.
An Army Pay Committee is sitting to revise these rates.
The conditions of service are the general conditions of the ordinary soldier.