§ 127. Mr. DORISasked whether the time may be extended during which after receiving notice of internment an Irish prisoner may make representation against the order to intern him, seven days being insufficient for the purposes in the cases of many young and inexperienced prisoners away from home and friends; whether such prisoners may be allowed to have private consultations with their solicitors as to the preparation of such representations; if 310 prisoners may on application by themselves or their solicitors be furnished with copies of any definite charges made against them; and whether, on the application of prisoners or their solicitors, evidence will be taken within reasonable distances of their residences of witnesses named by prisoners?
Mr. SAMUELI do not think any; prisoner can have any difficulty in making a plain statement of his own case in his own words in the time allowed, but if he wishes to make any supplementary statement or to submit written evidence, he may do so later; and where good reason for delay can be shown, representations will be admitted after the expiration of the seven days. Every prisoner, when the order for his internment is made, receives a notice in which the specific grounds for making the order are stated. It will be for the Advisory Committee to decide its own procedure, and to say where and how it will take evidence, but I understand that the Committee propose to hold sittings in Ireland for the purpose of hearing evidence.