asked the Minister for Transport and Power what amount is now in the CIE Workers' Pension Fund; and how and where this money is invested.

The total amount standing to credit of the CIE superannuation scheme for wages grade employees, as at 31st December, 1963, the latest date for which figures are available, was £3,794,436. Of this amount £3,627,597 was invested in Irish Trustee Stocks, £29,829 in British Trustee Stocks and the balance of £137,010 was made up of bank deposit and current accounts and certain amounts due to the fund on the date in question.