DÁIL IN COMMITTEE. - DISCIPLINE.
With regard to discipline, as far as the internal affairs of the Army are concerned we have, for the last three weeks or so, in circulation disciplinary regulations framed for ourselves and introduced for the present under a Defence order. These disciplinary regulations, I understand, will have to come before the Dáil here, and will have to be submitted and be passed in whatever form they will decide to have them. At the present moment, and for our immediate purpose, they are in operation under the authority of the Minister. If it is meant whether regulations are in force at the present moment regulating the conduct of the Army towards the civil population, there are no such written regulations in being, and at the present moment we have not anybody framing any such regulations.