andMr. Timmins asked the Minister for Social Welfare the number of old age pensioners who were in receipt of home assistance at the latest date for which figures are available.
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Statistics as to the number of old age pensioners in receipt of public assistance are not compiled regularly, but a special return obtained in October, 1966, showed that 2,729 old age, non-contributory, pensioners and 618 old age, contributory, pensioners were in receipt of public assistance.