Gough Barracks, Armagh (Theft of Arms)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — British Army – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 22 June 1954.

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Photo of Mr Cahir Healy Mr Cahir Healy , Fermanagh and South Tyrone 12:00, 22 June 1954

Does the right hon. Gentleman not think it desirable from both the economic and national point of view that troops in Northern Ireland should be withdrawn and the Irish people thus enabled to settle their differences in a constitutional way? Will he not also consider that another result would be that he could reduce the term of National Service for men serving in this country and overseas?