asked the Minister for Local Government and Public Health whether he will have further inquiries made about the application for old age pension of Thomas Newman, of Kill, Straffan, Co. Kildare; further, if he is aware that the Registers of Eadestown, Cross Chapel and Blessington Churches and Somerset House show no record of his birth in 1853, and whether, as this man is practically a cripple and unable to earn his living he will give favourable consideration to the claim.
CEISTEANNA—QUESTIONS. ORAL ANSWERS. - STRAFFAN (KILDARE) O.A. PENSION.
This claim was disallowed on the 2nd January last on the ground of insufficient evidence of age.
Claimant's birth certificate was not produced. There were written statements that his baptism was not recorded in the Registers of the Kill and Blessington Parishes. A neighbour also declared that he had no hesitation in believing that claimant was certainly over 70 years of age.
The facts as put forward were held to be insufficient to justify a decision on age in favour of the claimant. If he is now in a position to offer more definite and reasonably conclusive evidence of age it is open to him to make a new claim and to forward it in the usual way, with the evidence, to the Pension Officer.