Jimmy Deenihan (Kerry North, Fine Gael)
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Question 503: To ask the Minister for Defence the number of persons who are in receipt of pensions for their service in the 1916 Rising and the War of Independence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36218/06]

Willie O'Dea (Limerick East, Fianna Fail)
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There are no surviving Veterans of the 1916 Rising or the War of Independence in receipt of a pension from my Department, the last two Military Service Pensioners having died earlier this year. However, allowances are being paid to 221 widows of deceased Military Service Pensioners and to 445 widows of other deceased Veterans.