Oh, no. With regard to the Civil Service Compensation Board, I think the Deputy was under a misapprehension. A very small proportion only of the compensation awarded will be payable by the British Government. The only amount that they will pay will be the differnce between the amount that was payable under the original judgment of our Supreme Court and the findings of the Privy Council. Practically all the cases of retirements in consequence of the change of Government have now been dealt with. There may be a small number remaining. What the Board in future will have to deal with will be the cases of people who claim that their conditions were altered to their detriment, and who will claim compensation on that basis. There will be, I expect, a very small number of them.
With regard to the Committee which is to inquire into the position of national teachers in the Gaeltacht, that matter arises out of the Report of the Gaeltacht Commission and the White Paper of Government policy published in connection with it. The Committee is to be set up for the purpose of considering whether some agreed scheme could be evolved for transferring elsewhere teachers in the Gaeltacht who have not a knowledge of Irish and who do not seem likely to acquire a knowledge of Irish. The personnel of the Committee has not been completed, and, of course, it has not held meetings. It is intended that it should be constituted something in the following manner—an independent chairman, three representatives of Managers, three representatives of the National Teachers' Organisation, and a few representatives of the Department of Education.
With regard to the Grain Tribunal, it is intended naturally that a report will be published. It will possibly be paid out of the Stationery Office Vote. With regard to the Manuscripts Commission, there are several books on the point of being published. There is, for instance, "Duanaire Chloinne Aodha Buidhe," which is practically ready. I have seen unbound copies, and it is somewhere in the stage of being published. A great deal of the Book of Lechan has been photographed and a photographic facsimile is being produced. I know that photographs have been taken, and the book is in process of being printed off. The printing off is rather slow, because it is dependent on the weather. Some times, when as few as eight prints have been made, the machine has to be stopped and the type has to be cleaned. On other days, when atmospheric conditions are suitable, it might be possible to print as much as fifteen. As far as that book is concerned, the printing of one page occupies a considerable time. As a matter of fact arrangements are being made to get a second printing machine for the Ordnance Survey, because it is not possible for one printing machine to keep pace with the photographic department which produces first the photograph and then also the gelatine plate from which the book is printed. A good deal of progress has been made with another manuscript, the name of which I have not at the moment, from Trinity College. Other books on hand include the "Liber Primus Kilkenniensis,""The Register of Hospitallers of St. John of Kilmainham," and "The Civil Survey" (Vol. 1). Amongst works which it is hoped to publish in the present year are: The Rinuccini Memoirs, Rentale Terrarum, Fitzwilliam Papers, Civil Survey (Vol. No. 2), Register of Tristernagh, Lexique of Place Names, The Irish Nennius, O hUidhrinn, and O Dubhgain's Topographical Poems. As a matter of fact, though nothing has appeared yet except two issues of the "Analecta Hibernica," a great deal of work has been done in the preparation of the volume, and, as I happen to know, some of them are in a very advanced stage towards publication.
