asked the Minister for Social Welfare if he will state what steps were taken by his Department to secure that the unemployment insurance cards of a gardener employed by a foreign Government representative in Dublin would be duly stamped.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Payment of Disability Benefit.
My Department followed its normal procedure in the case to which the Deputy refers, and the insured person concerned has received the full disability benefit to which his contributions entitled him.
Would the Minister explain how it took nine months to have this man paid his benefit, during which time he was sick?
We followed the normal procedure. We made the usual inquiries and as a result of our inquiries the contributions were paid and the man got his benefit.
Are we to take it as the normal procedure when a case like this happens that nine months must elapse, during which the innocent party is sick, before he gets paid what he is entitled to by law?
No.
That is what you said.
He was paid before Deputy Dunne said anything about it.
That is wrong and the Minister knows it.
When Deputy Dunne rang up he was told that the man was being paid.
He was paid the day after I rang.
You put the Deputy out of the Dáil over it.
He got himself put out the next day.
For exposing it.