§ Mr. FARRELLasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether he has yet completed his inquiries into the refusal of the Local Government Board to allow a pension to be paid to James Fox, of Rathbracken, Granard, although now clearly of the age of 70 years, unless he repays a sum paid him in error some three years ago; whether the Local Government Board have power to deprive a man entitled to a pension in this way; and will he direct that the mater be now rectified and the pension paid.
§ Mr. DUKEI would refer the hon. Member to the reply given to his question on the 17th October, when the facts of the case were fully stated. The matter is not one in which the Irish Local Government Board have any power to interfere.