That is a very big job. However, I know it is very important in relation to certain matters that come before us that the preceding week's debates be available in some printed form. A reasonable attempt was made to provide these debates in printed form. I know it hindered a lot of Deputies in dealing with certain measures, particularly the Committee Stage of the Finance Bill. It is a point worth looking at. If anything can be done without undue expense, certainly I will be favourably disposed to doing something about it.
In regard to Deputy Dillon's point, this is something that has been raised over a number of years. I do not think the analogy he drew is a proper one. As far as I could understand his case, the poultry instructresses he had the Minister for Finance for the time being look after were not, I gather, in receipt of any superannuation allowances.
The case of the members of the staff here who had long service, some of which was unestablished, is on the same basis as unestablished service of other persons working in the Civil Service complex. I do not think it is correct for Deputy Dillon to suggest that, if we deal with this class now in a preferential way, we are not going to create a precedent.
I do not know to what extent Deputy Sweetman received representations from people that they should get more favourable recognition for unestablished service as far as pensions are concerned. I certainly got many, even before I became Minister for Finance, from all kinds of public servants who had unestablished service, followed by established service. This is a matter governed by the Superannuation Acts and they give the same treatment for pension purposes to the people Deputy Sweetman has in mind, that is, that their established service can be recognised fully but only one half of their unestablished service. As far as I know, that is common right through the public service.
There is one matter in which certain long serving members of the staff in Leinster House have preferential treatment. Where they have, on reaching the age of 65, over 16 and under 26 years pensionable service, then they are given a notional increase in pensionable service up to 26 years in order to improve their superannuation payments. That is a preferment these officers enjoy beyond the general run of civil servants and public servants.