asked the Minister for Finance if he is aware that certain old persons who happened to be temporarily domiciled out of the Free State on the 6th December, 1922, have been denied the Old Age Pension on the ground that they are not citizens of the Irish Free State, though they were born in the Irish Free State and had not adopted the citizenship of the country to which they had temporarily gone to reside and if he will introduce the necessary amending measure to enable such persons to get the benefit of the Old Age Pension Acts.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Residence Qualification for Old Age Pensions.
No cases of the nature indicated have come under my notice, but if the Deputy will send me particulars of any instances of which he is aware of genuine hardship under the existing statutory residence qualification for old age pensions, I will have them closely investigated.