Captain CRAIGasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland whether there are 5,000 pensioners of the Royal Irish Constabulary in Ireland whose average pension is 16s. per week; and, if so, whether, 2391W in view of the impossibility of living on such a pension, he will take steps to see that the pensions given these men under the Act of 1883 are revised and made adequate, especially as nearly all of these men are, by reason of hostility to them as servants of the Government or because of age or infirmity, incapable of securing civil employment?
§ Mr. HENRYThere are about 4,500 pensioners of the Royal Irish Constabulary having pensions of less than £1 a week. Under the scheme proposed by the Cabinet Committee, pensioners will be eligible for increases of pension on the same lines, and subject to the same conditions as other pre-War State pensioners.