§ Mr. SCANLANasked the Under-Secretary of State for War whether his attention had been called to the case of Martin Costello's application for a pension; whether he was aware that Costello joined the first battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers in August, 1881, and served for seven years, and then for five years in the first-class Army Reserve, and afterwards from 1901 1967W for one year in the Royal Reserve and two years in the Royal Garrison Regiment in Malta, during the late Boer War, and finally for six years in the Reserve Division of the Militia, a total of twenty-one years in all; whether he is aware that he was injured in the course of his service and is now permanently incapacitated and a patient of St. John's poor-house hospital, Sligo, and has repeatedly applied for a pension; and whether, in view of his service and injuries he has sustained, a pension will be provided for him?
§ Colonel SEELYMartin Costello's service is correctly stated in the question. He did not, however, give the requisite fourteen years' colour service to entitle him to a pension and there is no record of his receiving any serious injury in the service. There are no grounds, therefore, for his claim to a pension.