§ MR. PATRICK O'BRIEN (Kilkenny, N.)To ask the Secretary of State for War whether his attention has been directed to the case of Thomas Shortal, of Kilkenny, who, after a service of twenty-seven years in the Army, was discharged on a pension of 7d. per day for six months, and who is now sixty years of age, in poverty, and unable to earn; and whether, in view of his long service, good conduct, and that he has two sons still serving in the Army, he will grant him a pension.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Haldane.) This man's case has been considered by the Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital, and he was informed in February last that he was not entitled to any further pension from Army funds. It is not, therefore, within my power to make any grant, as suggested in the Question.