asked the Minister for Social Welfare if he can arrange some method of paying small farmers unemployment assistance other than by their attending at the local Garda station.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Unemployment Assistance.
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Smallholder applicants for unemployment assistance, in common with other applicants who live over six miles from their nearest local office, are required to attend at their garda station once a week to have their forms certified so that they may receive payment at their local post office. This requirement is not onerous and, apart from the fact that there is no satisfactory substitute for it, attendance once a week at the garda station constitutes the minimum necessary for the prevention of abuses. Accordingly I do not propose to alter these arrangements.