asked the Minister for Health whether he is aware that the Kerry Deputy County Manager approved of the addition, for pension purposes, of six years to the 27 completed years of service of Nurse Nora O'Sullivan, Mental Hospital, Killarney, and that his Department refused to sanction this proposal, and whether he is prepared to reconsider the case with a view to having the hardship involved to Nurse O'Sullivan remedied.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Pension of Nurse O'Sullivan.
The position is as stated by the Deputy. On the facts submitted by the mental hospital authority I was not satisfied that an addition of six years to Nurse O'Sullivan's completed years of service was justified. Apart from representations made by Deputies I have received no request for reconsideration of this case from the mental hospital authority. I am, however, prepared to examine the case again in the light of such further evidence as the mental hospital authority may desire to submit.
Is the Minister aware that the deputy manager has already made an order in this case? Would it not be irregular to send it back again asking him to make another order in the same case?
The mental hospital authority have the power to find out whether the retired officer is permanently incapacitated as a result of disability and to make a further request for a review of the question of added years of service.