§ 71. Mr. O'DOWDasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether he will state the grounds on which the Local Government Board refused to sanction the granting of an old age pension to Mary Cully, of Tubberscarden, Tubbercurry Sub-committee District, county Sligo?
§ Mr. SHORTTThe claim of Mary Cully, of Tubbercurry, County Sligo, was disallowed on the ground that the claimant's means exceeded the statutory limit. She is maintained on a farm of forty-eight acres, fair land, with one-and-a-half acres of potatoes, one-and-a-half acres of oats, five acres of hay, and thirty-nine acres of grass, with turf, fourteen cattle, one horse, sheep, pigs and fowl.
§ Mr. O'DOWDIs it not a fact that Mary Cully assigned the interest in her farm six years ago to her son and has no means whatever?
§ Mr. SHORTTThese are not my instructions. I will make further inquiries.
§ 73. Mr. O'DOWDasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether he is aware that Honor, otherwise Onney, Taheny, residing in Carrickbanagher, Drumfin, Ballymote, county Sligo, Ballymote Sub-committee, who was granted an old age pension by the local committee, was afterwards disqualified because her Christian name appeared as Annie in the Census register; and whether inquiries will be made and the matter set right?
§ Mr. SHORTTThe claim of Honor, otherwise Onney, Taheny, of Carrick-banagher, Drumfin, Ballymote, county Sligo, was disallowed on the ground that she failed to show she was seventy years of age. Inquiries were made before the claim was decided. There is nothing to show that she was the child named Annie in the Census return. She was married on the 6th February, 1890, when her age was given as thirty-one years.
§ Mr. O'DOWDDid not a mistake arise in the entry in the register? She was put down as Annie instead of Chavey. The difference in the name put her out of Court. Will the matter be further considered?
§ Mr. SHORTTI am not aware that there was any mistake in the fact that she was only thirty-one in 1890.