Former MP for Fermanagh and Tyrone
Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that in the city of Belfast the Government—
Well, I will ask the question in a form in which, perhaps, it may be useful. Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that in certain districts in these islands—
May I ask the right hon. Gentleman, since this claim has been received with such hilarity in the House, whether it is not based upon the statement of a. Royal Commission appointed by this country and largely constituted of British statesmen arid British, financiers that Ireland had been robbed for 120 years? Is that a historically recorded Parliamentary fact or is it not? Since the right hon....
You can ask Mr. Childers when you meet him. I put two precise questions to the right hon. Gentleman and I should like to have an answer to both.
Will the right hon. Gentleman now answer my second question?
On a point of Order. The right hon. Gentleman dilated at length upon a bond of honour and upon the observance of obligations in a Treaty. If he is dealing with Ireland, I take it that the same moral principles apply to one part of the country as well as to the other, and I put the question to him whether those obligations must be borne by both parts—
Mr. Speaker, with all respect., may I say that, when a Minister makes a declaration that the Free State must observe its obligations and fulfil its Treaty arrangements, I want to know whether this House is to demand that, equally, the other part of Ireland should observe its obligations, because you are responsible to the same extent in dealing with it?
On a point of Order. This is a rather serious matter. Am I to understand your Ruling to be that we cannot discuss Northern Ireland in its relationship to the British Empire? It will be within the knowledge of a small section of this House, perhaps the only section that knows anything about Ireland, that this Parliament controls two-thirds of the revenue of Northern Ireland, that Northern...
