With your permission, a Cheann Comhairle, I propose to take Questions Nos. 34 and 35 together.
An insured person who is suffering from disablement is not necessarily incapable of work and there is nothing to prevent such a person from registering at any time at an employment exchange for work and making a claim for unemployment benefit. The question whether he fulfils the statutory conditions for the receipt of unemployment benefit, which require, among other things, that the claimant be capable of work, is one for decision in the ordinary way by a deciding officer or, on appeal, by an appeals officer in the light of all the facts and circumstances. Disablement would not affect the rate of unemployment benefit payable to a person found to be entitled to that benefit.
A disabled insured person who is incapable of work would be entitled to credited contributions in respect of any weeks in which he furnishes evidence of incapacity for work. Where he is not incapable of work he would be similarly entitled in respect of weeks of proved unemployment.