Dáil Éireann - Volume 7 - 25 April, 1924

CEISTEANNA—QUESTIONS. ORAL ANSWERS. - RURAL DISTRICT COUNCIL CLASSIFICATION.

Captain W.A. REDMOND Captain W.A. REDMOND

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Captain W.A. REDMOND asked the Minister for Local Government whether the Baltinglass Rural District No. I was under the classification adopted by the Local Government Board for the purpose of the Graded Scale of Salaries, a Second Class District, the Clerk of which was entitled to an assistant at a progressive salary beginning at £60 a year; whether the Local Government Board varied this agreement in the case of Baltinglass and would not allow a recognised assistant clerk, but permitted a sum of £60 a year to be [14] expended in clerical assistance; whether this allowance was not designed or intended to deprive the clerk of his legal right to have his substitute paid while incapacitated by illness, and whether his Department will now sanction the payment of the substitute the clerk had to employ during his illness. which was contracted while acting at Wicklow Quarter Sessions as a witness for the Council in criminal injury claims.

Mr. BURKE Mr. BURKE

Mr. BURKE: Under the classification referred to the area was regarded as second class, and the Council might have appointed an Assistant Clerk. It is understood that the arrangement agreed to was to allow the clerk £60 a year for providing clerical assistance. The graded scales of salaries were designed to cover all expenditure from the rates in conducting the Council's clerical business, and a condition of their being applied was that temporary absences of permanent officials would not involve payments to substitutes.

I am satisfied that the scales provided very generous remuneration, and see no reason why sanction should be accorded to payments to the clerk's substitute during the period mentioned.

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