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APPENDIX IX.

ATTORNEY-GENERAL’S ADVICE AGAINST PROSECUTION IN MILITARY SERVICE PENSIONS CASE.

As regards the note by the Comptroller and Auditor-General, paragraph 91, Subhead I., Military Service Pensions, since the Committee’s adjournment on June 16th, we have asked the Attorney-General’s Office if they would have advised a prosecution under Section 19 of the Military Service Pensions Act, 1934, if that question had been put to them specifically. The Attorney-General’s Office stated that they would not have advised any such proceeding and pointed out that in a case tried in the Central Criminal Court six months previously and referred to in the Comptroller and Auditor-General’s report under the same paragraph, in which there was much more convincing evidence of perjury, the State failed to sustain the charge.

(Signed) PEADAR MAC MATHGHAMHNA,

Secretary,

Department of Defence.

22ú Meitheamh, 1948.