I beg to move for permission to bring in the Indemnity Bill, 1924. The purposes which it intends to carry out are outlined in the Resolution, and I formally move for permission. The main purport of the Bill is as follows:—
A Bill entitled an Act to restrict the taking of legal proceedings in respect of certain acts and things done during the struggle to bring about the termination of the rule of the British Government in Ireland and the establishment of the First Dáil Eireann and the Second Dáil Eireann respectively as the lawful Government of Saorstát Eireann, or done during the period immediately succeeding the conclusion of that struggle and to make provision for the payment of compensation to certain classes of persons in relation to such acts and things as aforesaid and to validate sentences and the execution of sentences imposed by military tribunals acting under the authority of the First Dáil Eireann or the Second Dáil Eireann and for other purposes connected therewith.