84. Mr. NUGENTasked the President of the Board of Agriculture if he is aware that Mr. Edward Murphy, of 1, Green Street, Dublin, who qualified at an examination held in Dublin Castle in 1872 as a permanent Civil assistant in the Ordnance Survey, was retired in the year 1891 on medical grounds on a pension of £24 2s.; whether this man's salary at the time he was retired amounted to £85 a year; whether as a permanent Civil assistant this man was entitled to a pension amounting to two-thirds of that salary; and if he will take steps to see that the man's pension is now adjusted to the proper amount, and that he is fully compensated for the amount which has been withheld from him since he was retired?
§ Colonel GIBBSMr. Edward Murphy was not retired from the Ordnance Survey on medical grounds but for general inefficiency. He had then served for twenty-two and a half years, and his salary on retirment was £97 16s. 7d. He was not qualified for a pension under the Superannuation Act of 1859 as he had not attained the age of sixty, but, after consideration of the full facts of the case, he was awarded a reduced retiring allowance of £24 2s. per annum under Section 2 of the Superannuation Act, 1887. His case has been fully considered on several occasions since 1891, but no new facts have come to light which would justify any modification of the original decision.
§ Colonel GIBBSI will put that question to my hon. Friend.