Committee Reports::Report - Appropriation Accounts 1935 - 1936::28 April, 1937::Proceedings of the Joint Committee

IMEACHTA AN CHOISTE.

THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE.

Dé Céadaoin, 28 Abrán, 1937.

Wednesday, 28 April, 1937.

1. The Committee met at 11 a.m.


2. Present: Deputy Dillon (in the Chair), Deputies Beegan, Goulding, Haslett, McMenamin, O Briain and Smith.


3. Consideration of the Appropriation Accounts for the year 1935-36 was resumed. The following Accounts were disposed of:—Office of the Minister for Justice, Gárda Síochána, Prisons, District Court, Supreme Court and High Court of Justice, Land Registry and Registry of Deeds, Circuit Court and National Health Insurance.


4. Mr. S. A. Roche (Secretary, Department of Justice), Mr. J. Hurson (Secretary, Department of Local Government and Public Health), Mr. J. McCarron (National Health Insurance), Mr. T. S. C. Dagg, Mr. C. S. Almond (An Roinn Airgid), Mr. F. J. Feeney (An Roinn Airgid) and the Comptroller and Auditor-General were examined.


5. Motion made (The Chairman):—


“That the Accounting Officer for the Gárda Síochána Vote be requested to furnish a Memorandum explaining recruitments of Gárdaí, as referred to in Paragraph 17 of the Report of the Comptroller and Auditor-General.”


The Committee divided: For, 3; Against, 3.


For—The Chairman, Deputies Haslett and McMenamin.


Against—Deputies Beegan, Goulding and Smith.


The Question was declared lost.


6. The Committee adjourned at 1.10 p.m. till Wednesday, 12th May.