§ Rev. Ian Paisleyasked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will make a statement about the payment of compensation of £77,000 to a prominent IRA man who lives in County Monaghan in the Republic of Ireland and who claimed to have sustained severe head injuries in a bomb explosion which took place with 276W out warning in the Starry Plough Pub on the New Lodge Road, Belfast, in February 1975.
Mr. ConcanonCompensation for a criminal injury sustained in 1975 would have been awarded by the court under the provisions of the Criminal Injuries to Persons (Compensation) Act (Northern Ireland) 1968 and it would not be appropriate for me to comment on it.