DÁIL IN COMMITTEE. - MILITARY UNIFORMS.
There has been talk about English uniforms. Some uniforms have been made in England, but of all the uniforms used in the Army 85 per cent. are of Irish manufacture, and I can assure the Dáil that everything is done to give our work to Irish manufacturers. And when people read in the Press statements calling us young men in a hurry, well, we were in a hurry, and when we wanted 100 per cent. of uniforms to keep our men clad and protected from the cold I think we were doing reasonably well when we were only driven to go to England or any other place outside Ireland for 15 per cent of the material we required.