§ 68. Mr. GINNELLasked the Prime Minister whether the officer who gave the order to shoot any person entering a certain corridor of the South Dublin Union, or the soldier who in obedience to that order shot Nurse Kehoe through the heart, has yet been tried by any Court, civil or military; whether any notice was given to the nursing staff to avoid the corridor in 304 question; whether Nurse Kehoe was when shot wearing her nursing uniform; whether there was any reason for thinking she was acting in any other capacity than that of a nurse; whether the King's Regulations empower any officer to order the shooting of, or any soldier to shoot through the heart, a nurse wearing her uniform and practising her profession; and what the intention of the Government is with regard to this case?
§ Mr. TENNANTThe circumstances connected with this case have been very carefully and exhaustively inquired into, the evidence of military and also civilian witnesses having been taken. It has been definitely ascertained that this most regrettable incident was a pure accident. The remaining portions of the question do not therefore arise.
§ 69. Mr. GINNELLasked the Prime Minister if he will state why no independent inquiry has yet been held into the cases of Councillor Carroll and Patrick Nolan, dragged by the military out of a house in Camden Street, Dublin, into a yard, shot there, taken wounded to Portobello Barracks Hospital, where the former died of his wounds within a week, the latter still living and able to identify the sergeant of the Royal Irish Rifles who shot him; whether Mr. Nolan will be afforded an opportunity of doing this; whether Mr. Michael Gibson will be allowed to give evidence of it in a public inquiry; and what the intention of the Government is with regard to these two cases?
§ Mr. TENNANTI am obtaining information from Ireland, but in the meantime I must not be taken as accepting the allegations contained in the question as being accurate.