§ Mr. HACKETTasked the Secretary to the Treasury to state the grounds upon which the pension officer at Cashel calculated that the means of Mrs. Mary Ryan, Graystown, Killenaule, Thurles, exceeded the statutory limit?
§ Mr. HOBHOUSEI am making inquiries into this case, and will communicate further with the hon. Member when they are complete.
§ Mr. BOLANDasked on what grounds an old age pension has not been granted to Bridget Sullivan, Coomavoher, in the Derriana district, in view of the fact that she has reached the statutory age, and that, though search has been made in the Census records of 1841 and 1851, no trace has been found of her family in the town-lands where she lived as a child?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe Local Government Board upheld the appeal of the pension officer in this case on the ground that there was no proof that Bridget Sullivan had attained the statutory age. The family of her parents was traced in the Census Return of 1841, but her name did not appear in the list of members, and no satisfactory evidence as to her age was produced.
§ Mr. FRANCIS MEEHANasked on what grounds Patrick Lynch, of Aughametta, county Leitrim, has been deprived of his old age pension, which had been 1877W granted by the Manorhamilton sub-committee on the 8th of May, 1911, on the strength of evidence of the family Bible record and certificates produced; and whether the Local Government Board would reconsider their decision in this case?
§ Mr. BIRRELLPatrick Lynch was not deprived of a pension, but his claim was refused because he failed to prove that he had reached the statutory age. The family Bible referred to did not belong to claimant's family but to a neighbour whose age was recorded in it and who said Lynch was born in the same year. It is not open to the Board to reconsider their decision.