§ Lieut.-Colonel ARCHER-SHEEasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether he is aware that Mr. W. C. Doyle, who joined the Royal Irish Constabulary on the 12th October, 1920, was honourably discharged on the 24th October, 1921, unfit for service on account of wounds received on duty (ambushed at Kylebeg, County Tipperary, June, 1921); that he has been informed that he is only to receive six months' sick pay at pension rates, and that he will not be granted a pension, notwithstanding the fact that he had enlisted in the regular Royal Irish Constabulary and was not a temporary constable; that other men are now being disbanded with pensions, many of whom have had less service than Constable Doyle and were never in an action of any kind; and whether he can see his way to placing constables of the regular Royal Irish Constabulary who were discharged for wounds on the same footing as others who were not wounded, many of whom have had less service?
§ Sir H. GREENWOODConstable Doyle's pension was granted for a period of six months, and is subject to re-assessment when that period has expired. It is not intended that the pension should then cease. The rate at which it will continue will, however, depend upon the degree of disability then found to exist.