I think we have amended the Title, but I do not think it is passed yet.
THE TITLE.
Before you pass from the Title, I wonder whether the amendment is quite satisfactory. Perhaps Deputy FitzGibbon did not notice it. The Bill was entitled "An Act to make provision for the Superannuation of and Payment of Pensions, Allowances, and Gratuities to or in respect of certain persons in the Service of Saorstát Eireann and to amend and extend the law relating to Superannuation and the Payment of Pensions in Saorstát Eireann." It is a difference in language, but not a difference in effect. In the one case the Act was entitled "To make provision," and in the other was "Authorise the payment of." Is there any valid difference there that would make the Bill unsatisfactory from the legal point of view?
The new Section inserted, in respect of which the Title was amended, begins, "The Minister for Finance may from time to time by order authorise a grant of pension." It is because that Section, giving authority to him, was put in that it seems to me that the Title was amended.
Question put: "That the Title, as amended, stand part of the Bill."
Agreed.