asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs if he will have the present limited arrangement for international link-up broadcasts extended so as to have all programmes broadcast from Radio Éireann on Christmas Day, Saint Stephen's Day, New Year's Eve and New Year's Day given an international link-up and thereby enable Irish exiles all over the world to keep in touch with home for the Christmas period; further, if, in view of the success which attended the broadcast on short wave of features in the past, he will arrange for such a broadcast on the injustice of Partition to be made to our exiles on New Year's Day.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - International Broadcasts.
This is a question involving the general programme policies of Radio Éireann. I understand that the comhairle and director are always anxious to have Radio Éireann programmes broadcast abroad during the periods mentioned, but this depends on the co-operation of foreign broadcasting organisations and the opportunities are limited.
In regard to the latter part of the question, I do not think it would be practicable, even if it were desirable, to initiate short-wave propaganda broadcasts in connection with Partition.