asked the Minister for Defence if his Department has had under consideration the case of the late A/Coy.-Sergeant-Major Joseph Daly (No. 20343), formerly in the Army Medical Corps, who was discharged from the National Army on 30th December, 1925, being medically unfit for further service owing to illness and disease contracted during the period, and on account of his service in the National Army, and further, if the application of his relatives for a pension or grant of compensation has been considered, and with what result.
CEISTEANNA—QUESTIONS. ORAL ANSWERS. - ILLNESS CONTRACTED IN ARMY.
Sergeant Joseph Daly applied for a pension under the Army Pensions Act, 1923, in respect of (a) an injury to his knee sustained on the 4/12/24, after the cessation of active service conditions, and (b) tuberculosis. His claim was outside the scope of the Act and he was so informed. He died before the enactment of the Army Pensions Act, 1927, and no claim for pension or compensation in respect of his death has been received from his dependents under that Act. I am prepared to consider such a claim, however, if submitted on the prescribed form.
If the Deputy will communicate the name and address of the dependent person I will arrange to have the requisite form sent to him.
The claim received from deceased's sister is in respect of any arrears of pension that might have been granted to her brother as from the date of his discharge, but she was informed that such a claim could not be considered under the Pensions Acts.
How does the latter part of the answer coincide with the statement made immediately prior to that by the Minister that if representations were made by his dependents that they would receive consideration now?
There was an application for a pension that he might have received if he were alive, but this is a question of a possible gratuity under the other Act.