Michael Lowry (Tipperary North, Independent)
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Question 395: To ask the Minister for Defence if compensation will be issued to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7658/08]

Willie O'Dea (Limerick East, Fianna Fail)
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The Army Pensions Acts provide for the consideration of a claim for a disability pension in respect of disablement due to wound or injury attributable to service in the Permanent Defence Force. Application must be made within one year of discharge from the Permanent Defence Force.

The person concerned was discharged from the Permanent Defence Force in 1963 and applied for a disability pension in July, 1980 and again in September, 1993. However, as the statutory time limit had long since elapsed in this case, an application for a disability pension could not be accepted.

There is no record of any compensation claim of the nature outlined by the deputy in relation to the individual in question. The person concerned did however initiate a hearing loss claim, which was settled in 2002. Any compensation claim lodged at this stage would be statute barred.