Is the Minister satisfied that the Censorship Board, as it is presently constituted, is able to deal with the amount of material which it should deal with to keep a lot of undesirable material out of our bookshops?

I am satisfied that the Censorship Board is able to deal with the demands made on it. What is implicit in the Deputy's question is: does the law need to be changed to look at some of the material which is flooding the country? Possibly it is an exaggeration to say "flooding the country". There is a different standard of publication now visible in shops and it is a question of whether the law would have to be changed to deal with this. The law on obscenity and indecency is a most intricate legal area. There has been endless trouble in other areas in trying to devise a formula that will deal with the problem satisfactorily.