§ 28. Mr. GINNELLasked the Home Secretary what the intention of the Government is regarding the places in which and the conditions under which the men deported from Ireland without charge or trial are to be compelled to reside and the arrangements for their maintenance and the maintenance of their dependent families in Ireland deprived of their breadwinners?
§ Mr. BRACEAs to the first part of the question. I can only refer the hon. Member to the answer given to him on the 21st instant by my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State for War. As to the latter part, the maintenance of these men's dependants is a matter for the consideration of the Irish Government.
§ Mr. GINNELLWhy are newspapers addressed to these men not allowed to-reach them?
§ 59. Mr. GINNELLasked whether the arrest and deportation of Mr. J. J. O'Kelly, without charge or trial, was-because he is a member of the supreme council and of the executive of the Irish Nation League, which was founded to prevent the partition of Ireland, which reserves to itself power to withdraw Irish representation from Westminster, and which insists upon Ireland's right to representation as a distinct nation in the forthcoming international peace conference; and are all these objects held to be illegal?
§ Mr. DUKEI can add nothing to the answers I have made to the numerous questions asked by the hon. Member on this subject.
§ Mr. GINNELLThe right hon. Gentleman has not answered the question. What I want to know is whether the matter on the Paper is the cause of the arrest and deportation of this man without trial?
§ Mr. DUKEThe answer which I have given repeatedly is that it was not. The hon. Member might as well ask me whether the colour of his hair was the cause.
§ Mr. GINNELLAs nothing I have put on the Paper is the cause will the right hon. Gentleman say what was the cause of his arrest and deportation without trial?
§ Mr. GINNELLIs this man not to get any trial?