![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I am only going to dwell upon it except that one point emerges, of which I ask the Minister to make a note, as it concerns the Department of Justice. The first is the freedom of Press and publications. I should like to look to the future, and to consider the main facts of our national freedom. I think we should have more to say in day-to-day administration, because we have in this House a number of people eminently qualified to speak on general subjects. I have always wished that we might have some change in our Standing Orders whereby we should have the opportunity in some form of considering, more or less under the heads of the Estimates, public expenditure, but apparently we have inherited the system of the country across the water where the Upper House has very little power. We get very few opportunities in this House for considering the position of the country in its broad aspects. After all, finance involves much more than budgets and figures, as it reacts on every aspect of our national life. I feel that we get few opportunities here for a broad survey of our financial position. I feel that we will have much more common ground on the question of finance than we had on questions that divided us in the past, and I wish the Minister all success in his new and very responsible office. I do not know whether, after listening to the long and rather tedious debate yesterday, I would be doing the right thing in congratulating the Minister in his new office, but, at least I am very glad personally to see him there, and I feel confident that our encounters, if there are to be any, in the future will be much more amiable than they have been in the past. Appearing before an Oireachtas committee. ![]()
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