45 and 47. Mr. NUGENTasked the Prime Minister (1) if the Government have decided not to compensate the dependants of those murdered by the military in North King Street, Capel Street, and other districts in the College Green Division of Dublin on the plea that there is no proof by whom these breadwinners met their deaths; why no public inquiry is granted so that the positive proof in the hands of several solicitors in Dublin and the evidence at the inquests may be submitted and tested; whether the Government will publish the whole of the evidence obtained at the secret inquiries, much of which it is alleged was given under threats; whether he will give permission for the printing and publishing of an appeal in Ireland, Great Britain, and neutral countries to relieve the distress of the dependants of the murdered men, such an appeal to include copies of sworn affidavits indicating how and by whom the men were murdered; and (2) whether he will consider the claim for compassionate allowances or compensation for the loss of their breadwinners of the wives and families and dependants of innocent men who met their deaths at the hands of the military during the disturbances in Dublin; whether he had an opportunity during his visit to North King Street, Dublin, of seeing for himself the necessity for some such allowances or compensation and whether, in view of the fact that compensation is to be given to the owners of business concerns injured by the military during the disturbances, he will sympathetically consider the need of the widows and orphans and dependants referred to?
Mr. SAMUELOn the subject of compensation, I would refer the hon. Member to the answers to the questions of the hon. Member for the Dublin Harbour Division on the 22nd and 26th June. I think an appeal containing exparte statements of the nature referred to by the hon. Member would be calculated to stir up ill-feeling, and its circulation would not be permitted. As regards the other points mentioned by the hon. Member, I would refer him to the answer given by the 1490 Prime Minister to the question of the hon. Member for East Mayo on the 17th instant.
Mr. NUGENTIf the Government refuses to hold an inquiry when people in Dublin are able to identify the actual men who murdered those people, what is to he the remedy?
Mr. NUGENTThe Prime Minister said there was no proof as to the identity of those by whom those murders were committed. We hold in our possession, and only want an opportunity of producing, actual evidence and affidavits from several respectable people in the district.
§ Mr. SPEAKERThe hon. Member is making a statement now and not asking a question.
§ Major HUNTWill the dependants of the soldiers killed by the criminal neglect of the Government in not maintaining law and order be properly provided for?
§ Mr. SPEAKERThe hon. and gallant Gentleman must give notice of that question.