(Monaghan) asked the President:—
(a) In view of the grave condition of affairs disclosed by the Deputation from the Catholic Total Abstinence Federation which was received by An Dáil on February 28th what steps he proposes to take to prevent the growth of intemperance?
(b) What steps does the President propose to take to regularise the removal of the Belfast Boycott, which was imposed by a decree of the Dáil, dated 22nd January, 1921?
(c) Is it not a fact that, since the removal of the Boycott upon Belfast and its associated districts, there has been a very considerable increase in the number of outrages committed upon the Nationalist and Catholic population under Sir James Craig's Government? Do these outrages number now over 30 murders and over 200 attempts at murder?
Furthermore, in view of this grave and scandalous state of affairs in Belfast will he re-impose and strictly enforce the Belfast Boycott?
(d) Has the President received a telegraphic communication from Mr. Desmond Crean, Chairman of the Joseph Plunkett Sinn Féin Club, Belfast, giving him details of the outrages to which the Catholic population of Belfast are now being subjected under the Government of Sir James Craig?
If the President has not received the telegram to which I refer, has he not nevertheless received authentic accounts of the outrages from other reliable and unquestionable sources?
In any case, since the occurrence of these outrages is common knowledge, what measures do the President and his associates propose to take for the protection of the Nationalists and Catholic population of this country who live in Belfast and elsewhere, counties of Armagh, Down, Antrim, Derry, Fermanagh, and Tyrone?