asked the Minister for Local Government and Public Health whether he is aware of the reduction in old age pension from 10s. to 9s. per week in the case of Patrick Mulligan, of Maynooth, Co. Kildare; that this man, on attaining the age of eighty years on the 7th November, 1924, applied several times to his Department to have his pension increased to 10s., without result, and whether he will have inquiries made with a view to payment of increase.
CEISTEANNA—QUESTIONS. ORAL ANSWERS. - KILDARE OLD AGE PENSIONER'S CLAIM.
There has been no appeal to me in connection with this case, and consequently I have no information in regard to it.
It would appear from the Deputy's question that the pensioner did not attain the age of eighty years until the 7th November last. He is not eligible, therefore, for the ten shillings pension. The concession in that matter, made by the Act of 1924, was limited to persons then in receipt of the pension who attained the age of eighty years on or before the 20th June, 1924. There was no provision in the Act to enable me to authorise the ten shillings pension in cases where the pensioner attained the age of eighty years at a date later than the 20th June, 1924.