Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Naval and Military Pensions and Grants. – in the House of Commons at on 31 July 1923.
asked the Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies whether he is aware that there is no precedent in which legislation by a Dominion has overridden and abolished statutory rights of British subjects which have accrued and become vested under legislation of the Imperial Parliament prior to the acquisition of Dominion status by such Dominion; and whether, under these circumstances, he will make representations to the Irish Free State requesting them to reconsider their action in abolishing the statutory vested right of British subjects to compensation for malicious injuries under awards made before the ratification of the Treaty by the Imperial Parliament?