asked the Minister for Transport and Power the appointments made in his Department from 20th March, 1957 to 13th March, 1973 other than through the Civil Service Commission and in respect of each appointment (a) the name of the person (b) the grade (c) the title of the post (d) the qualifications required (e) the salary and any allowances or emoluments attaching to the post and (f) the terms of employment.

Because of the large number of employees, including temporary, casual and part-time staff, in a variety of grades, who are recruited for my Department other than through the Civil Service Commission and the fact that the staff is spread over a number of centres, the assembling of the information asked for would be unduly costly in both time and staff.