§ MR. FLYNN (Cork, N.)To ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, as representing the Local Government Board, whether the attention of the Board has been called to the hardship inflicted on John Jordan, labourer, Milford, County Cork, seventy-three years of age, by his claim to a pension being disallowed by the Kanturk sub-committee; that the reason alleged for disallowance was that he received 2s. 6d. medical relief for each of two weeks in July last; and, in view of the fact that this old man, who is now unable to work, was never in the workhouse and never received Poor Law help in any shape whatever, whether the Board will review the case if the 5s. received by him as medical relief is refunded to the guardians.
(Answered by Mr. Birrell.) This case has not come before the Local Government Board, but neither the Board no the pension committee have power to set aside the provisions of the Old-Age Pensions Act, and the repayment of the relief mentioned will not remove the statutory disqualification.