§ Mr. HUGH LAWasked why the old age pension of Margaret Stevenson, of Knocknaballan, Kilmacrennan, county Donegal, has been taken away; was the Local Government Board made aware of the fact that this woman's parents were married in or about the year 1830, and that she herself was born in or about the year 1834, and that a number of respectable old people in the district are prepared to testify to her being now nearly seventy-seven years of age; and whether, if these facts were before the Local Government Board, they will be prepared to reconsider Their decision on a fresh application being lodged?
§ Mr. BIRRELLThe Local Government Board allowed a question raised by the pension officer on the ground that Mary Stevenson, of Drumbrick, Termon, county Donegal, who is apparently the woman referred to, had not reached the statutory age. Her parents were married, according to the Census Return of 1841, in the year 1837, and, in 1841, had two children, John, three years old, and Edward, nine months old, no child being either absent or dead. If Miss Stevenson considers she is now in a position to show that she fulfils the statutory condition as to age it is open to her to make a fresh claim.