I propose, with your permission, a Cheann Comhairle, to take Questions Nos. 22, 23 and 24 together.
The payment of increases in pensions within the limits notified to local authorities last December is a matter for each local authority. I understand, however, from the Dublin Corporation and the Dublin Health Authority that all pensioners who qualified for the increases have been paid in full or have been granted interim payments and that all pensioners of the former Grangegorman Mental Hospital Board who qualified have been paid in full. I am informed that the Dún Laoghaire Corporation pensioners who qualified have been paid in full and that the Dublin County Council pensioners who qualified will be paid shortly.