§ Lieut.-Colonel ARCHER-SHEEasked the Chief Secretary whether members of the Royal Irish Constabulary who are suffering severe physical disability, attributable entirely to their service in the Royal Irish Constabulary, are eligible for disability pensions?
§ Sir H. GREENWOODA member of the Royal Irish Constabulary, if incapacitated for the performance of his duty by infirmity of mind or body occasioned by an injury received in the execution of his duty without his own default, is entitled, on a medical certificate, to retire and receive a special pension for life. Such special pensions are the only disability pensions for which members of the Royal Irish Constabulary or of any British police force are eligible.
§ Lieut.-Colonel ARCHER-SHEEasked the Chief Secretary whether Mr. W. R. Gilmartin, late Auxiliary Division, Royal Irish Constabulary, who was recommended for a pension by a medical board on the 27th November, 1921, on the ground that his disability was due to Royal Irish Constabulary service, has been refused a pension by the Pensions Board on the ground that his case was not covered by regulation; and, if this be the case, what steps are being taken to make these cases pensionable?
§ Sir H. GREENWOODMr. Gilmartin was discharged from the Auxiliary Division suffering from kidney troubles, which were not the outcome of an injury received in the execution of his duty in the Division. He was therefore ineligible for a pension and no recommendation for a pension was made.