asked the Minister for Local Government whether he has received repeated applications from the Laoighis Hospital and Homes Co. Committee, asking him to sanction payment of a pension to Mr. Denis Molloy, Cloneygowan, late Relieving Officer in the Mountmellick Union, and if he can now state the reason for the delay in giving sanction for the pension to which this man is entitled since October, 1921.
WRITTEN ANSWERS. - RELIEVING OFFICER'S PENSION.
The pension awarded to Mr. Molloy is governed by the provisions of Section 11 (4) of the Local Government (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1923. As the Laoighis County Council did not dispute within the prescribed time the amount of the allowance granted to him, he is legally entitled to receive that amount from the County Council, on whom the liabilities of the former Boards of Guardians in the county devolve. Sanction to the payment of the allowance is not necessary. The County Board of Health were written to this effect in June and September.