MR. PATRICK O'BRIENI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether his attention has been called to the case of Dr. R. B. Moore, of Rockcorry, county Monaghan, who at the age of 75 years, and after serving 44 years as dispensary medical officer, when obliged to retire through ill-health, was refused any superannuation; and whether, in view of such a case as this, and the possibility of other similar cases, he will consider the advisability of accepting some of the Amendments on the Paper to the Local Government (Ireland) Bill making it compulsory on the new local bodies to grant superannuation?
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURI am informed that the proposal to grant a retiring allowance to Dr. Moore has been twice before the guardians, but that it fell through on both occasions. I could not undertake in the Local Government Bill to deal with the general question of superannuation of officers.