§ Mr. DANIEL BOYLEasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland why the old age pension claim of Pat M'Nulty, Creevy, Crossmolina, county Mayo, has been refused; is he aware that M'Nulty has produced as proof of his age a copy of the 1841 Census record showing him to have then been three months old; that he is without means of any sort; and that he can produce ample evidence of neighbours that he is the Pat M'Nulty described in the 1841 Census record; and on what evidence his identity is challenged?
§ Mr. BIRRELLPatrick M'Nulty's pension was discontinued on a question raised by the pension officer that he was 29W under seventy years of age. This man's name did not appear in the Census Return of 1841, as stated, and from the information as to his family supplied by the pensioner it would appear that he is not the Patrick M'Nulty who was recorded in that Return as being three months old.