In furtherance of an undertaking given some time ago a Departmental Committee of five persons has been given the following Terms of Reference:—
"To consider and report whether it is necessary or advisable in the interests of public morality to extend the existing powers of the State to prohibit or restrict the sale and circulation of printed matter."
The personnel of the Committee is as follows:—
Chairman: Professor Robert Donovan, University College, Dublin.
Rev. James Dempsey, M.A., P.P., Clontarf.
Rev. J. Sinclair-Stevenson, M.A., B.D., Killiney.
Deputy Professor William E. Thrift, M.A.
Deputy Tomás O Conaill.