Writes: "... You will remember that I mentioned that it would be advisable to add to the Committee an Irish Judge, so that it should not be said that Irishmen were being tried by an almost wholly English tribunal. After consultation with our advisers in Dublin, I have invited Mr. Justice Pim to serve, and he consented to do so. I am forwarding it to you and, in order to save time, am asking you to be good enough to communicate with him direct as to the probable dates of the settings of the Committee ... There is another question which I should like to mention - a certain number of civil servants in Ireland are suspected presumably on good ground, of connection with the Sinn Fein movement, although there is no such definite evidence of participation in the rebellion as to warrant immediate dismissal from the public service. It is felt that these men ought not to be left as officers of various departments if they are in fact actively disloyal, and, on the other hand it would not be right to dismiss them, with consequent forfeiture of pension rights, without careful investigation of the facts of each case ...". In the aftermath of the Easter Rising in Ireland, over 3,000 people were arrested for their involvement in the Rising. The majority were transported to prisons in England and Wales. The British Government set up the Advisory Committee in June 1916 and held numerous sittings at which the prisoners were allowed to state their case.