§ Mr. PATRICK WHITEasked the Secretary to the Treasury whether there is any objection to a medical officer of a dispensary district in Ireland issuing a certificate under the National Insurance Act to a sick person upon whom he is in attendance and taking a fee for doing so; and whether the dispensary midwife may act in the same manner as the medical officer?
§ Mr. MASTERMANThe certificate required by an insured person for claiming sickness benefit may be issued to him by the medical officer of a dispensary district in Ireland at a charge agreed upon between the patient and the doctor; the certificate required by an insured woman or the wife of an insured person to support a claim for maternity benefit may be given by a dispensary midwife in attendance on the case.