§ Mr. P. WHITEasked who was responsible for putting the hon. Member for Newry on the Advisory Committee to deal with Irish prisoners; and why none of the prisoners' own countrymen were placed on the Commitee, who were in touch with and living under British law as administered in Ireland?
Mr. SAMUELThe hon. Member for Newry has been for more than a year a member of the Advisory Committee dealing with appeals under Regulation 14B, to which the cases of the Irish prisoners were also referred, and has rendered most able service. A member of the Irish Bench, Mr. Justice Pirn, was added by me to the Committee for the hearings of these cases.