DÁIL IN COMMITTEE. - PRISONERS.
We do appreciate the responsibility that is on us to see that there are not kept in prison people who ought not to be there, or people whom any reasonable man would be even satisfied to run a certain amount of risk to release if the Intelligence Officer of the Command— and there are eight in the country—and if the Commanding Officer of the Command would certify that they could be let out. The ultimate responsibility at the present moment for keeping men is with the Officer in Command of one of our eight Commands. In releasing a man we take his opinion and the opinion of his Chief Intelligence Officer. During the last fortnight or so we have officers working on a scheme that will mean that each prisoner we hold at the present moment will be passed under review, so that if it is possible to leave out with reasonable safety any number of the men that we hold at present in internment camps, they will be left out in the near future.