HC Deb 06 July 1917 vol 95 cc1489-90W
Mr. NUGENT

asked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether a claim for £100 has been received by the Rebellion (Victims) Committee on behalf of John Young, 24, Garden Lane, Dublin, who sustained serious injuries to his ankle during the disturbances of Easter week, 1916; if he is aware that the Committee only awarded a sum of £24 in this case, that the applicant was four months in hospital as a result of his injuries and was unable to work for a further nine months, and that he will be partially incapacitated for life; and if he will give instructions to the Committee to reconsider this case in order that this man may be adequately compensated for his injuries and the loss he has sustained as a consequence?

Mr. DUKE

Mr. John Young was awarded anex gratia grant of £24 13s. 10d. in respect of the injury received by him in the Rebellion. The grant was for the period from 25th April, 1916, to 20th April, 1917. when he resumed work at his former rate of wages. He has been informed that his case will be further considered should there be any material change in his circumstances

Mr. T. M. HEALY

asked the Secretary to the Treasury whether the offers of compensation made to Mr. Dickson, Mr. Coade, and the relatives of the clerks unlawfully killed in Guinness' brewery in April, 1916, were those recommended by Sir William Goulding's Committee or are a departure therefrom suggested by the Treasury; and will he give in each case the offer made by the Treasury to the dependants of the murdered men, and the recommendation of the Rebellion Losses Committee?

Mr. BALDWIN

I shall be happy to give the hon. Member details of the grants sanctioned by the Treasury in these cases, if he desires them; but I do not regard it as desirable to publish the proceedings of the Rebellion (Victims) Committee, to which, I presume, he refers, in these or in other cases.