§ Captain FOXCROFTasked the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs why the Government are not prepared at the present stage to pledge themselves to pay in full the recommendations of the Irish Grants Committee in favour of Southern Irish loyalists, having regard to the fact that such recommendations are less than the scale of compensation provided by the Irish Criminal Injuries Acts and that Lord Dunedin's Committee found that successive Governments had pledged themselves to the payment of compensation as provided by those Acts?
§ Mr. CHURCHILLI have been asked to reply. I would refer my hon. and gallant friend to the replies given by the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs on the 17th May to the hon. Member for Barnstaple (Sir B. Peto).
§ Lieut.-Colonel JAMESasked the Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs whether his attention has been drawn to the Report of Lord Dunedin's Committee on the subject of the sufferings of Irish loyalists in which, after defining the full compensation which injured persons were entitled to under the Criminal Injuries (Ireland) Acts, 1919 and 1920, Lord Dunedin found that on the narrowest interpretation of the Government's pledges the standard of compensation would be that applied before the Act of 1903 by the Irish Courts under the Criminal and Malicious Injuries Acts and by the Wood Renton Commission in similar cases; and why limiting conditions, under which the Irish Grants Committee can investigate the present financial condition of the applicant, were inserted in that Committee's terms of reference?
§ Mr. AMERYI would refer my hon. and gallant Friend to the reply given by the Prime Minister to the hon. Member 863W for Barnstaple (Sir B. Peto) on the 17th May.