§ Mr. SHINWELLasked the Home Secretary (1) on what grounds Ambrose Kenny, of Bathgate, was deported and in which part of Ireland he is interned; who is to be responsible for the maintenance of his wife and family;
(2) on what grounds Patrick Hyland, of Winchburgh, was deported and in which part of Ireland he is interned, and who is to be responsible for the maintenance of his wife and family?
§ Captain ELLIOTI have been asked to reply to these questions. Ambrose Kenny and Patrick Hyland have been interned in Ireland on the ground that they are persons suspected of acting, having acted or being about to act in a manner prejudicial to the restoration and maintenance of order in Irelad. They are at present interned in Mountjoy Prison, Dublin. The point raised in the third part of these two questions is now under consideration.
§ Mr. TREVELYANasked the Home Secretary whether he will publish the 61W correspondence which took place between himself and the Free State Government in relation to the action taken under the Restoration of Order (Ireland) Act?
§ Mr. BRIDGEMANI regret that I cannot add to the very full statements on this question made by the Attorney-General and myself in recent Debates.
§ Mr. MORRISasked the Home Secretary whether the Advisory Committee recently appointed under Regulation 14b will carry out and act under the same procedure as that followed by the Advisory Committee which investigated the cases arising out of the Irish rebellion of 1916; and, if not, what are the objections to such procedure?
§ Mr. BRIDGEMANI understand that the Committee will, generally speaking, follow the procedure of the earlier Committee referred to.
§ Mr. MORRISasked the Home Secretary whether the Advisory Committee recently appointed under Regulation 14b, is going to sit in Great Britain or in the Irish Fred State?
§ Mr. BRIDGEMANThe Committee proposes to sit in this country.
§ Mr. SAKLATVALAasked the Home Secretary if he has received direct statements of their case and claims from the deportees in Ireland; and, if so, will he place them upon the Table of the House, and also copies of any replies that he may make to the same?
§ Mr. BRIDGEMANI have received representations from one of these persons and his case is being referred to the Advisory Committee. I have also received a lengthy protest in general terms, signed by 32 of the deportees, in which they challenge the legality of the action taken by His Majesty's Government and decline to recognise the Advisory Committee. The answer to the last part. of the question is in the negative.