§ MR. J. P. FARRELL (Longford, N.)To ask the Secretary to the Admiralty whether his attention has been called to the case of Joseph Mullen, No. 197,680, lately serving as an able seaman on H.M.S. "Diamond," who was invalided from the Royal Navy on 19th October, 1905, and given a pension for eighteen months at the rate of £9 18s. a year; whether he is aware that this man is now dying of consumption in Longford; and will he direct that such additional 859 pension will be granted to him as will maintain him for the short period of life yet before him.
(Answered by Mr. Edmund Robertson.) Mullen was not invalided for consumption, but for another disease not attributable to the service. He was awarded a temporary pension for eighteen months, which is the full amount allowable from naval funds in his case. His service has been too short to render him eligible for anything but a small temporary pension from the funds of Greenwich Hospital, and he is only eligible for that if he is suffering from the same disability as that for which he was invalided. Mullen will be medically examined and his case will be then considered.