§ Mr. DORISasked the Chief Secretary upon what grounds the Irish Local Government Board on appeal disallowed a pension of 4s. per week granted by the local pension sub-committee to John 363W Lally, Bannahulty, Manulla, county Mayo, whose income is derived solely from six acres of inferior land which he holds at a rent of £4 0s. 4d. per year; and can he state in detail how the said income was estimated by the local pension officer?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe appeal lodged against the allowance of a pension to John Lally is at present being investigated by the Local Government Board. The Board are not in possession of the details of the pension officer's estimate of claimant's means.
§ Mr. JAMES O'KELLYasked on what ground the Local Government Board has refused to sanction the pension of 5s. granted by the Strokestown sub-committee to Mrs. Bridget Moran, a widow living on a small bog holding, paying a yearly rent of £2 14s., and found by the sub-committee to be over seventy years of age?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe family of Mrs. Moran could not be traced in either of the Census Returns of 1841 or 1851, and she produced no evidence to show that she had attained the statutory age. The Local Government Board had, therefore, no option but to disallow her claim.