I move in line 29, immediately after the figures "1923," to insert the words "save that it shall be deemed to include the armed organization known respectively as the Criminal Investigation Department, the Citizens' Defence Force and the Protective Force."
The effect of the amendment is to extend the definition of National Forces in the Defence Forces (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1923, so as to include men who had pre-Truce service and who volunteered for any one of these three services. These men volunteered at very great risk to their own lives. They did very valuable services and were really on active service during the particular period they were in these different corps.