asked the Minister for Local Government and Public Health whether he is aware that Miss Johanna Horgan, of Ballyhorgan, Lixnaw, is over seventy-five years of age; that her old age pension has been reduced to 2s. on the grounds that she is maintained by her nephew, and that the reason given by his Department for this reduction is that this maintenance has been calculated as a benefit or privilege; whether it has been represented to him that this old lady has no claim whatever to the maintenance afforded her by her nephew, and whether this case will be reconsidered.
CEISTEANNA—QUESTIONS. ORAL ANSWERS. - LIXNAW OLD AGE PENSION CLAIM.
SEAMUS O CRUADHLAOICH
The facts are as stated in the Deputy's question. The pensioner is maintained by a nephew on a holding of 60 acres (Valuation £25 5s. 0d.) carrying 16 cattle and a horse. There are 3 acres of tillage and the usual pigs and fowl are kept. As long as the maintenance is continued in this substantial home the decision already given cannot be reconsidered, or a higher rate of pension than 2s. a week allowed.