The Gazette 1985

GAZETTE

APRIL 1985

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awarded to her 7'/ 2

years after the claim had first been

overlapping benefits only applied to actual overlapping in cash and in time. Subsequently her claim was forwarded by the National Insurance Commissioner to the Irish Department of Social Welfare, which rejected it on 31 October 1980 on the ground that it was not a "competent institution". However, the Department of Social Welfare subsequently reversed that view, and on 19 July 1982 granted her the 12 weeks maternity benefit she was entitled to under Irish law. Ms. Walsh continued her application before the U.K. authorities, which ultimately held, applying the European Court's ruling, that maternity benefit was obtainable by her in the U.K. in respect of any period for which it could not be obtained in Ireland, and that the U.K. benefit would be awarded for a further six weeks because any delay in claiming it was explained by the reference to the European Court. 12 In the end, therefore, Ms. Walsh succeeded in having the benefit

made! Apart from social security rights, 13 Irish citizens may also invoke EEC rules to prevent discrimination in higher education fees being charged by education authorities in other Member States. This issue was considered by the English High Court in 1982, in MacMahon -v- Department of Education and Science & Others. 14 MacMahon had grown up in Ireland, but in 1978 went to England and obtained employment with Fords of Dagenham as a production worker. He decided he wanted to become a teacher, and on the basis of his Irish educational qualifi- cations was accepted for a place in an approved teacher training college in London. He then applied to his local authority for an education award but was excluded because he lacked the necessary residence qualification, and in addition, he was required to pay fees to the college 87