§ Mr. DORISasked the Minister of Labour if he is aware that migratory labourers of military age left their homes in Ireland this year, as in former years, to take temporary employment in Great Britain and without applying to Labour Exchanges for military exemption cards, of which they knew nothing; whether they have since applied unsuccessfully for such cards; and will he take steps to have bonâ fide migratory labourers from Ireland provided on application with cards exempting them from military service and Trom prosecution as absentees?
§ Mr. BRIDGEMANThe arrangements with regard to the supply of cards certifying that Irishmen are exempt from compulsory military service were given wide publicity in Ireland. Irish migratory labourers who were not sent to Great Britain through the Employment Exchanges in Ireland can obtain cards certifying exemption upon application to any Employment Exchange in Great Britain, provided that they are522W actually employed upon munition work, other Government contracts, transport work or agriculture, and are found, after inquiry in Ireland, to be ordinarily resident in that country.