Paul Connaughton Snr (Galway East, Fine Gael)
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Question 149: To ask the Minister for Finance the reason a person (details supplied) in County Galway is not entitled to the widow's and orphan's pensions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21378/05]

Tom Parlon (Laois-Offaly, Progressive Democrats)
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To be entitled to a widow's pension, the husband of the person concerned would have had to be a member of the widow's and orphans' pension scheme while he was employed in the Office of Public Works. As the records in the Office of Public Works indicate that her husband opted out of the original widows' and orphans' pension scheme 1978, and the revised spouses' and children's pension scheme 1986, she is not entitled to any widow's pension under the scheme in respect of his service in the Office of Public Works.