asked the Minister for Lands if he will state what committees have been set up in relation in any way to his Department for the purpose of making recommendations or helping in post-emergency development work intended to increase production and employment; the date the committees were set up; the names and qualifications of their members, and the dates and matters on which any reports or recommendations have been received; and whether and when it is intended to publish these reports or recommendations, and if it is not intended to publish them, the reason for not doing so.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Post-War Land Development.
The Deputy is asking me to answer a very wide question when he uses the words "in relation in any way" to the Department of Lands. I cannot say, for instance, whether the committee on agriculture may deem it advisable to make some reference to one of the branches of my Department, but that committee has not so far done so in its published interim reports. There is no committee set up or sitting at present charged with the making of recommendations in regard to the post-emergency development of the work of my Department, and if the Deputy will remember that my Department consists of the Land Commission, the Forestry Division and the Gaeltacht Services Division, I hope he will agree with my own view that special investigation of the kind suggested is unnecessary. There is, of course, the Cabinet Committee on Economic Planning which is concerned with every aspect of the national economy and with which I am in close touch, but I assume that such a committee does not come within the scope of the Deputy's question.