40 Mr. Nealon asked the Minister for Defence if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a number of widows of long serving members of the Defence Forces, some with over 40 years' service, have now no army pension as their husbands opted out of the optional insurance scheme of the time; and if he will now, as a special measure on compassionate grounds, make provisions for pensions for these widows.

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40 Mr. Nealon asked the Minister for Defence if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a number of widows of long serving members of the Defence Forces, some with over 40 years' service, have now no army pension as their husbands opted out of the optional insurance scheme of the time; and if he will now, as a special measure on compassionate grounds, make provisions for pensions for these widows.

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1. 25 October 1990

   Ceisteanna — Questions. Oral Answers. - Defence Forces Pensions.

   40 Mr. Nealon asked the Minister for Defence if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a number of widows of long serving members of the Defence Forces, some with over 40 years' service, have now no army pension as their husbands opted out of the optional insurance scheme of the time; and if he will now, as a special measure on compassionate grounds, make provisions for pensions for these widows.

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