§ Mr. DANIEL BOYLEasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland if he would state why the claim of Mary Rowlands, of Cloughbrack, in the Lahardane sub-pension district, county Mayo, for an old age pension has been disallowed by the Local Government Board?
§ Mr. BIRRELLMrs. Rowland's claim to a pension was disallowed by the Local Government Board on the ground that she had not satisfied them that she had attained the statutory age.
§ Mr. HACKETTasked the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland 741W whether Thomas Kennedy's claim for an old age pension has been refused on the grounds of no evidence of age; whether his sister, who is several years younger, is over seventy years and in receipt of a pension; whether Thomas Kennedy's name appears in the Census Return of 1841 as being four years old; and, if so, whether, under the circumstances, he will direct the Local Government Board to reconsider his claim for a pension?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe claim of Thomas Kennedy was disallowed by the Local Government Board on the ground that he had not attained the statutory age. He furnished the Board with baptismal certificates of two sisters who were baptised in 1836 and 1842, but he produced no evidence that he was born before the younger of the two. The Local Government Board have no power to reconsider their decisions, but it is open to Kennedy to make a fresh claim if he is now in a position to furnish definite evidence as to his age.