Paudge Connolly (Cavan-Monaghan, Independent)

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: the protracted and inordinate delay in enacting legislation to enable pensioners from whom nursing home charges were illegally deducted to be reimbursed, leaving them bereft of their pension funds for upwards of an additional two years; the despair felt by thousands of pensioners of ever living to receive a penny of the amounts due to them; and to propose that the Government make the gesture of advancing a substantial interim ex gratia payment prior to Christmas, in the spirit of the season, to those pensioners still living whose pension funds were illegally requisitioned by an indifferent State.

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