asked the Minister for Social Welfare the reason for the delay in the payment of disability benefit to a person (details supplied) in County Waterford.

There was no undue delay in dealing with the recent claim of the person concerned which was for unemployment benefit. The person concerned, who has since resumed work, is entitled to unemployment benefit in respect of one day only, namely, 21 April 1981. Payment of unemployment benefit due was made to him at the local office at Dungarvan.

I wish to refute the statement that these questions were put down before Easter. They were not put down before Easter. All the questions which I have tabled were put down within the last three weeks but, like a lot of other people, I did not think the Dáil would reassemble after Easter.

A lot of the questions were put down before Easter and were carried over to now. The payments, as I said earlier, were made on 27 March and 3 April.

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