asked the Minister for Social Welfare if it is a fact that female landowners are debarred from receiving unemployment assistance on the same terms as male applicants; and, if so, whether he will introduce amending legislation to have this anomalous position recified.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Unemployment Assistance Payments.
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The conditions of title to unemployment assistance require a female applicant to have at least one dependant or, if she is a spinster or widow, to have had a specified minimum period of industrial work. The ownership of land as such is not a factor in the matter. I do not have it in mind to alter these conditions which have operated since the scheme was initiated in 1933.