I move: "To insert in lines 9 and 14, immediately after the word `Volunteers' the words `and also of the Irish Citizen Army, 1916."
DAIL IN COMMITTEE. - THE TITLE.
AN ACT to provide for the payment of Wound Pensions to wounded members of Oglaigh na hEireann, including the Army and the Irish Volunteers, and for the payment of Allowance and Gratuities to the Widows, Children and Dependants of deceased members of Oglaigh na hEireann, including the Army and the Irish Volunteers, and for other purposes connected therewith.
In supporting this it is suggested that I should make known what has not been generally known, and it might be well that it were known. In regard to the Irish Citizen Army in 1916, the total number of members of that body was 270, and of that number the number who mobilised under arms on Easter Monday in 1916 was 118, exclusive of women auxiliaries.
On that particular point I would like to say that I was personally associated with a section of the Citizen Army in the preparations that went on during the week before Easter Sunday, 1916, and would have been associated with them during the week of the rising, but for certain accidents that happened and but for the fact that when they were remobilised on the morning of Easter Monday, they did not get sufficient notice to come with me. But subsequently, later on in the day, as soon as they could effect their mobilisation, they did so, and they joined the forces that were in Dublin at that particular time. The unit that I refer to was the unit that lived outside Dublin.
Question: "That the Title as amended stand part of the Bill," put and agreed to.