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Handwritten response, undated and unsigned, to the Minister’s reply to the Hierarchy’s letter to the Taoiseach, 10th .

Handwritten note containing five points outlining the reasons why the IMA opposes any form of medical service which will provide free treatment for all, irrespective of income.

Copy of typed letter to + Browne, Galway, from +McQuaid. He has had meetings with the Taoiseach, the Tanaiste, the Minister for Justice and the Attorney-General. The possibility of the Mother and Child proposals being accepted by the Cabinet and implemented, as they exist in the Draft, is not even to be considered.

Copy of the document ‘The Mother and Child Scheme: is it needed?’ The document is in favour of the Scheme and argues for an end of means testing.

Mother and Child Scheme, 1951

Handwritten letter and a typed copy of the letter to +McQuaid from John A. Costello, assuring him that his views will receive respectful and earnest consideration.

Copy of a typed letter to Dr. Browne from John A. Costello. Dr. Browne’s letter to the IMA has been brought to his attention. He has directed the Information Bureau not to issue it. The Scheme as outlined will not acceptable to the Government until the reservations made by the Hierarchy are satisfactorily settled.

Two copies of a typed letter to Dr. Browne from John A. Costello. It is clear from +McQuaid’s letter to you, 8th March, 1951, that the objections put forward on the occasion of your interview with him, and the bishops of Ferns and Galway on 11th October last were ‘unresolved either then or later.’ His action since he received the letter from the bishop of Ferns on the 10th October last has been entirely actuated by what he conceived to be a friendly desire to help a colleague.

Typed memo by the Bishop of Ferns on his meeting with the Minister for Health. Dr. Browne wished to state that in so far as he was to blame he regretted the situation which had arisen. He was prepared to accept the decision of the Bishops as to whether the scheme was opposed to Faith and morals, and if they decided that the scheme opposed Faith and morals he would, as a Catholic, not proceed and would resign his position as Minister for Health.

Handwritten draft letter to the Taoiseach from the Secretary. The Hierarchy wishes at once to record its deep appreciation of the unequivocal acceptance by the Taoiseach and Government of the decision which the Bishops may give upon the proposed Mother and Child Scheme, insofar as this Scheme bears upon Catholic moral teaching.