Committee Reports::Interim and Final Report - Appropriation Accounts 1938 - 1939::02 March, 1939::Proceedings of the Joint Committee

IMEACHTA AN CHOISTE.

THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE.

Déardaoin, 2adh Márta, 1939.

Thursday, 2nd March, 1939.

1. The Committee met at 11 a.m.


2. Present: Deputies Benson, Dillon, Hogan, Keyes, McMenamin, D. O Briain, O’Loghlen, O’Rourke, and R. Walsh.


3. Motion made (Deputy O Loghlen):


“That Deputy Dillon be Chairman of the Committee.”


Question put and agreed to.


Deputy Dillon took the Chair accordingly.


4. Consideration of the Appropriation Accounts for the year 1937-38 was taken up. 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, Local Government and Public Health, General Register Office, National Health Insurance, Widows’ and Orphans’ Pensions, Stationery and Printing.


5. Mr. S. A. Roche (Secretary, Department of Justice), Mr. J. B. Whelehan (Controller, Stationery office), and Mr. J. Hurson (Secretary, Local Government and Public Health), Mr. A. D. Codling, Mr. T. S. C. Dagg, Mr. C. S. Almond, Mr. D. P. Shanagher (Department of Finance), and the Comptroller and Auditor General were examined.


6. The Committee adjourned at 1.15 p.m. till Thursday next.