Royal Irish Constabulary.

Part of Civil Services and Revenue Depart Ments Supplementary Estimate, 1921–22. – in the House of Commons at on 20 February 1922.

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I absolve the right hon. Gentleman, but he was of colleagues of the right hon. Gentleman. At any rate, why is Sir Thomas Smith to be entitled to this extra £233 yearly; if so, why are not the rank and file entitled to extra pension? What is sauce for the goose is surely sauce for the gander! This requires a little more explanation. I shall certainly not vote for this extra pension until we get a more satisfactory explanation. If I thought that this was the last we were going to hear of Supplementary Estimates from the Chief Secretary, I should be inclined to pass them in order to get rid of his wretched administration, but this is not the last. We are going to have many more claims in regard to burnings at Balbriggan and Cork and other places. I hope we shall have some assurances from those Members of the Northern Parliament in this House that they are going to help the English taxpayers out of this difficulty, because a great deal of the trouble has been caused by them.