asked the Minister for Defence to state what prison or prisons the presumed citizens of Saorstát Eireann, recently deported from Great Britain, are interned in; whether these prisoners are permitted to receive and to transmit letters, and if so, at what intervals; whether they are permitted to receive parcels of clothing, tobacco, books, newspapers, or other non-warlike commodities; and to ask whether any of these prisoners have declined to receive or transmit letters?
CEISTEANNA—QUESTIONS. [ ORAL ANSWERS. ] - POSITION OF DEPORTEES.
They are interned in Mountjoy Prison. They are allowed to send and receive letters of a business nature freely, but to receive and transmit only one letter of a private personal character per week. Only the female internees refused to receive and despatch letters, and they adopted this practice only for the last week in March. The receipt of parcels is not restricted.