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Memorandum from the Department of Industry and Commerce, 5 October 1942, relating to the proposed increase of Unemployment Assistance payable to persons with dependants excluded from the Food Voucher Scheme. A summary of the memorandum is also included. Appendix A to the memorandum gives the weekly rates of unemployment assistance applicable to persons resident in any place other than a County Borough, Borough, Urban District or Town having Commissioners. The present rate and the proposed increased rate are listed. For example, a married woman with a dependent husband and five or more other dependants at present receives 13s a week and under the proposed increased rate she would received 22s per week.

s 12975A

Memorandum

Memorandum from the Department of Social Welfare, June 1948, relating to the General Scheme of the proposed Bill to amend the Unemployment Assistance Acts, 1933 to 1940. A summary to the memorandum is also attached together with the General Scheme of the Bill. An appendix gives the rates of unemployment assistance for men and women.

s 12975A

Memorandum

Copy letter to `A Chara' [Emergency Scientific Research Bureau] 17 October 1942, conveying the authority of the Taoiseach for the engagement of listed technical staff and officers for certain specified periods and at certain specified salaries. For example, Miss E Cremin, Chemist, is appointed from 1 October 1942, for a period of 3 months at a salary of £3.3.0, on an investigation of carbon black.

s 12976

Letter

Memorandum [it is not clear where the memorandum issued from], 13 October 1942, relating to the provision of a sanatorium for discharged soldiers suffering from tuberculosis. A list of proposed staff for the hospital is included. For example, 2 Staff Sisters and 12 Sisters from the Army Nursing Services are to be on duty in the hospital.

s 12979

Memorandum

Letter from Mrs R Clayton, Southall, Middlesex, England, to `Dear Sir', 15 September 1942. She writes concerning her brother, J Coone, who served in the army for sixteen years at which point the authorities found out that he had tuberculosis. He was discharged, she writes, without pension or any other allowance and `is now after giving the best years of his life to your services living on the charity of Dublin'. She writes that `perhaps something could be done or some interest taken in him. He is just cast aside as it were to die after he giving the best part of his life to the Army'.

s 12979

Letter

Letter to Mrs R Clayton, Southall, Middlesex, England, 25 October 1942, acknowledging receipt of her letter and stating that it is receiving attention.

s 12979

Letter

Letter to Mrs R Clayton, Middlesex, England, from the Department of the Taoiseach, 20 October 1942. He writes regarding the situation of her brother ex-Corporal John Coone. Details of the gratuity paid to Mr Coone are given and the letter states that it is regretted that his length of service does not entitle him to a Pension. `With reference to your brother's proposed claim under the Army Pensions Acts, I am to state that there are no provisions in the Army under which a claim in respect of disease contracted by a person subsequent to 30th September, 1924, while serving in the Forces, could be considered. I am to add, however, that his case has been noted for consideration in the event of legislation being enacted making provision for cases such as his'.

s 12979

Letter

Copy letter to Captain Peadar Cole [Solicitor], 30 December 1942, acknowledging receipt of the petition submitted by him on behalf of Miss Mary Hyland [no copy of this petition exists in the file]. He is informed that the petition has been transmitted to the Minister for Justice.

s 13003

Letter

Letter to Captain Peadar Cole, Solicitor, Dublin, 16 February 1943. In respect of the petition in the case of Mary Hyland convicted at the Dublin District Court on 28 April 1942, the Minister for Justice, he is told, has decided that no mitigation can be granted of the sentence imposed by the Court.

s 13003

Letter

Letter to de Valera from Mollie Cotter, Drumcondra, 6 November 1942. She has, she writes, just received a letter (enclosed) from her friend, Nora O'Neill, whose nephew Maurice O'Neill is under sentence of death. She wishes to add her voice to the many who are anxious to see him reprieved. She writes that the `official charge against him does not seem to justify his being tried before a court whose minimum sentence is death'. She states that she feels that `extreme & drastic measures only help to perpetuate bitterness and defeat their own ends. The letter from Nora O'Neill asks Mollie Cotter to do her `a great favour'. She writes: `I know that your sister-in-law Mrs. R. Cotter is also a sister-law [sic] of An Taoiseach and I was wondering if you could do anything in that way, or perhaps you have some influence yourself with some members of the Government.

s 13004

Letter