I want to ask the indulgence of the Dáil to allow me to move to have printed and circulated a Bill entitled "The Court Officers (Temporary Appointments) Bill." It would greatly facilitate my Department and the administration of public business generally in the country if the first reading of this Bill could be taken before the recess. The purport and object of the Bill is to enable certain rather important vacancies to be filled, and yet to be filled in such a way as not to give to the newly appointed person all the personal right and vested interests of his predecessor in view of the fact that the whole machinery of the administration of justice will be undergoing a change within the coming year. Therefore, this Bill would give a certain elasticity and enable me to arrange for the carrying out of these duties without vesting in the officer newly appointed all the rights that attached to his predecessor in office. I think it would be important to have this Bill passed in January, and, with a view to securing that, I should like to get the First Reading now.
COURT OFFICERS (TEMPORARY APPOINTMENTS) BILL, 1923. - FIRST STAGE.
Question put and agreed to.
Second Stage ordered for 16th January, 1924.