I move:
Go ndeontar suim bhreise ná raghaidh thar £10 chun íoctha an Mhuirir a thiocfaidh chun bheith iníoctha i rith na bliana dar críoch an 31adh lá de Mhárta, 1932, chun costais soláthair Pháipéarachais, Clódóireachta, Páipéir, Greamuíoochta agus Leabhra Clóbhuailte i gcóir na Seirbhíse Puiblí; chun Tuarastaíl agus Costaisí Oifig an tSoláthair d'íoc; agus chun Ilsheirbhísí Ilghnéitheacha maraon le Tuairiscí Díospóireachtaí an Oireachtais.
That a Supplementary sum not exceeding £10 be granted to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1932, for the expense of providing Stationery, Printing, Paper, Binding, and Printed Books for the Public Service; to pay the Salaries and Expenses of the Stationery Office; and for Sundry Miscellaneous Services, including Reports of Oireachtas Debates.
The sub-head G G 2 for the production of a volume illustrating early Christian art in Ireland covers a proposal which has been put forward in connection with the forthcoming Eucharistic Congress. The proposal was made by the Council of the Royal Irish Academy, which thought that a volume of this sort showing the wealth and variety of early Christian Art in Ireland would be very acceptable to a great number of visitors during the Eucharistic Congress. The Academy applied for an advance in order to produce the volume, but after a discussion it was decided that the volume could be produced satisfactorily by the Stationery Office and the Ordnance Survey. As Deputies may be aware, equipment was provided in connection with the work of the Irish Manuscripts Commission at the Ordnance Survey, which will enable extremely good reproductions of photographs of these various objects which are in the museum to be printed here. We find that the work can be done substantially cheaper than it can be done outside, and specimen pages, which have been prepared and examined by the representatives of the Academy, are regarded as fully equal if not superior to any work done elsewhere. It is anticipated that the sales of this particular volume will easily recoup the expenses of its production.
With regard to the next sub-head, GG (3), Publication of Irish Translation of the New Testament, Father O'Leary's translation of the Bible and particularly of the New Testament has been set up in type for a considerable time. I do not know that the whole of the Old Testament has been set up. Portion of it has been. The whole of the New Testament has been set up in type for six or seven years. Father O'Leary's literary executor has spent a great deal of money on it. For some time he has felt unable to expend any more, with the result that the work has been held up and the New Testament, as translated by Father O'Leary, is not available to the public. It is proposed to advance this sum to Father O'Leary's literary executor. Out of it he will defray the costs of certain revisions and corrections if necessary, including the correction of various printers' errors and the cost of printing and binding. In this case, the amount advanced can be recovered from the sales of the volume.
