asked the Minister for Defence whether he is aware that Volunteer Timothy Raleigh, No. 675 M., 7 Section, Collins Barracks, Dublin, National Army, was discharged after three years' service as medically unfit in January, 1925, and is now a patient in St. Bricin's Hospital, and whether he is aware that an allowance made to his wife and children, now almost destitute, has been stopped, and whether he will have the case inquired into with a view to affording much-needed assistance to the wife and family of this man.
CEISTEANNA—QUESTIONS. ORAL ANSWERS. - DEPENDANTS' ALLOWANCE CLAIM.
Mr. Raleigh was discharged from the Army as medically unfit on the 12th January last. Pay for himself and marriage allowance for his wife and children had necessarily to cease as from that date. As a compassionate measure, he has been kept temporarily in St. Bricin's Hospital. I regret that as his disability does not come within the scope of the Army Pensions Act, 1923, I have no power to make any financial provision in his case.