§ SIR HOWARD VINCENT (Sheffield, Central)To ask the Secretary of State for War, whether the Territorial and Reserve Forces Bill will be applicable to Ireland; and, if not, whether there will be neither county associations, nor special reservists, nor territorial Army in Ireland.
§ (Answered by Mr. Secretary Haldane.) Part I. of the Bill, which deals with county associations, can, by Order in Council, be made applicable to Ireland at any time and Part III. which relates to the special reservists does apply to Ireland as much as to the rest of the United Kingdom. The existing Militia in Ireland will be dealt with under the provisions of the Bill as soon as it becomes Law.
†See (4) Debates, clxxi., 23.