asked the Minister for Social Welfare if the name of Martin Creane, Culleen, Carna, County Galway, was recommended for the post of auxiliary postman in Carna post office by the local employment exchange.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Carna (Galway) Auxiliary Postman.
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The function of the local offices of my Department in relation to the filling of vacancies duly notified to these offices is confined to submitting a list of candidates suitable to the requirements of the employer.
On the 9th March, 1961, a vacancy for a temporary auxiliary postman at Carna Post Office was notified to the Employment Exchange, Galway, and Martin Creane was submitted for the vacancy. The employment was offered to him by the Post Office authorities, but he was unable to accept it.
Will the Minister answer the question rightly? That was not the post office I asked about. I asked about Carna and not Cashel. Would the Minister admit that the particular one I asked about was filled by political pull?
I would not admit anything of the sort. I could not let the Deputy away with that. The Deputy asked me a question and I had better read it so that he may know the question he asked? It is as follows:
To ask the Minister for Social Welfare if the name of Martin Creane, Culleen, Carna, County Galway, was recommended for the post of auxiliary postman in Carna post office by the local employment exchange.
There is no doubt about the post office. It was Carna.
Not the sub-post office.
I have already told the Deputy that:
The function of the local offices of my Department in relation to the filling of vacancies duly notified to these offices is confined to submitting a list of candidates suitable to the requirements of the employer.
There is no difference between us about that. I further said that:
On the 9th March, 1961, a vacancy for a temporary auxiliary postman at Carna post office was notified to the Employment Exchange, Galway, and Martin Creane——
That is the person referred to in the question——
was submitted for the vacancy. The employment was offered to him by the Post Office authorities, but he was unable to accept it.
Political pull, of course!
Will the Minister examine the question again when he will find there was the question of political pull?
The Deputy is incapable of putting down a question to which he wants an answer.
I shall give the Minisster the answer.
The Deputy has made an assertion——
Which he stands over.
The Deputy has made an implication in the form of an assertion which I think should be answered. This gentleman stated he was not physically fit to become an auxiliary postman.
Politically fit.
Order!
Is it not a fact that he was fit for the F.C.A. in Carna?