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IMEACHTA AN CHOISTE.

THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE.

Déardaoin, 28ú Bealtaine, 1953.

Thursday, 28th May, 1953.

1. The Seventeenth meeting of the Committee took place at 10.30 a.m. in Room 106.

2. The following Members were present:—

The Ceann Comhairle (Chairman), the Parliamentary Secretary to the Taoiseach, Deputies Breen, Cogan, Corish, Davern, Hilliard, T. O’Sullivan and Sweetman.

3. PREMATURE DISCLOSURE OF REPORT OF SELECT COMMITTEE.

The Committee were informed that inquiry had been made from the Chairman of the Oireachtas Press Gallery concerning the matter, and that a reply had been received stating that the Press Gallery at a special meeting regretted that there should have been a breach of the privileges of the House but that it had no means of ascertaining the agency through which the breach was committed.

The Committee deliberated.

Direction was given that a letter should be issued to the Editor of the Sunday Express asking him to explain fully the circumstances in which he became a party to the breach of privilege.

6. The Committee adjourned at 11.30 a.m.