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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
awarded to her 7'/
2
years after the claim had first been
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
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