Writes: "Orders for internment have been or will be made in about 1800 cases and each person affected will have a right of appeal to us. It is obvious that we must settle some procedure which will enable us to deal with the problem as rapidly as possible ... The persons detained are at present at many centres, London, Stafford, Knutsford, Wakefield and Lewes; but there is an idea of transferring them to an internment camp at Bala in North Wales, and it may be necessary for us to sit there, as well as in London and Dublin ...". 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.