To ask the Minister for Local Government on what grounds the Old Age Pension of 10s. per week, awarded on two occasions to James May, Reg. No. 1972, of West-End, Monasterevan, Co. Kildare, by the Athy No. 1 Sub-Committee has been rejected, and if he will have this claim investigated again, with a view to carrying out the findings of the Sub-Committee who must have had special local knowledge of the claimant and his means of living before they issued their award.
CEISTEANNA—QUESTIONS. - ATHY PENSION.
The Athy No. 1 Pension Sub-Committee voted a pension of 10s. a week to James May.
The farm consists of 10 Irish acres of good land; rent £8 10s. 0d., valuation £7 10s. Od; the crops were 1½ acres of potatoes, 1½ acres of roots, and 2½ acres of barley. The live stock were 3 cows, 6 yearlings, a horse, an ass, and the usual fowl.
As the yearly means of the claimant exceeded £49 17s. 6d. his claim to a pension was accordingly disallowed on the 21st October last.