asked the President if any communications have passed between the Executive Council, or persons with the knowledge or authority of the Executive Council, and the Northern Government in regard to the 520 Nationalist internees arrested in or since May, 1922? Further, to ask if it is contemplated making any representation to the Northern Government, whose Advisory Committee has been recommending releases, contingent upon the men concerned crossing the Border. Mr. Darrell Figgis added: In putting this question I would like to call attention to the fact that there is an error in punctuation, by which it appears that I am suggesting that representation should be made contingent upon the men crossing the Border, whereas the real point of the question is that the Northern Government had been recommending releases contingent upon men crossing the Border.
CEISTEANNA—QUESTIONS. [ORAL ANSWERS.] - SIX-COUNTY INTERNEES.
The answer to the first part of the question is in the negative. Relative to the second part of the question, the matter has been and is still under consideration. If the Deputy has the interest of the internees at heart, I am prepared to consider any definite proposal he may wish to put forward.
Would the President request the Northern Government, under the circumstances, to give the releases under the conditions that have been suggested, and which, apparently, the prisoners themselves are willing to accept—that the releases should be made contingent upon their crossing the Border?
I think that scarcely arises out of the question.