§ DR. ROBERT AMBROSE (Mayo, W.)I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, whether he is aware that Mary Muldoon, who was employed for 15 years and three months as laundress in the Castlebar District Lunatic Asylum was compelled to resign on 9th July 1895, owing to ill health, and that the Board of Control refused to sanction her superannuation, which was recommended by the Governors of the Asylum, on the grounds that she could not procure a certificate of ill-health from the Resident Medical Officer, notwithstanding the fact that she produced two such certificates from other medical men, one of whom is the visiting physician to the Asylum; and, whether he will use his influence with the Board of Control in order to procure for this woman the superannuation to which she is entitled after her long period of service?
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURThe facts are substantially as stated. In June 1895, the Resident Medical Superintendent was obliged to suspend the woman because of her refusal to perform her duties, and following this she sent in her resignation. The certificates produced by her were not in accordance with the terms of the Statute, and even if they had been the pension could not be granted without the certificate of the Resident Medical Superintendent. The Board of Control, under the circumstances, are unable to give their statutory approval of the pension.