I understand that when that Act was passed practically all the cases were inquired into by the Committee. Early in last March the Minister made a definite promise in the Dáil that the payment of pensions to people whose cases had been approved of would, in most cases, be made by the 31st March, but that in any case they would all be cleared up in the course of a month or so. Several weeks have passed, and from the communications that I have received and have seen, it would appear that that promise has not been carried out. I do not say that that is due to the Minister. I cannot understand why any one or two officials of the Ministry, who must have been closely associated with the inquiry, who would know all the circumstances of the cases of these men—the 600 men whose cases had been approved of—could not, in the course of five or six weeks, have dealt with them, and have seen that the pensions were paid. Cases of undoubted hardship have come under my notice, and it is due to that fact that I would ask the Minister to make some short statement on the matter, as to why those promises have not been carried out, when he hopes to give effect to them, and, further, when he hopes to publish the list which he promised Deputy Hogan some time ago, of the names of those who had received pensions under the Superannuation Act of 1923. I have one case among my papers where a bank manager lent a certain sum to one of the men whose cases had been approved of, on the definite understanding that the amount would be rapid within a certain period. That was on the assumption that the man, whose case was a clear one, and has been approved of, would be paid the money. I think some good reason is required to be given as to why the money has not been paid in cases of this kind. Deputy O'Connor, speaking on the matter some time ago, stated, and I believe rightly stated, that the Committee over which he presided had gone very carefully into every case, and that fair decisions had been arrived at as far as it was concerned. I do not know what other investigations are necessary if Deputy O'Connor's statement is correct; consequently I do not understand the failure, on the part of the officials of the Ministry, I presume, to give effect to the promises that were made by the Minister for Finance. I hope that he will clear the air in such a manner that outstanding cases will be dealt with, and dealt with very shortly, and save Deputies from receiving communications which, I believe, many of them have no time to reply to.