In it the Irish Republic reaffirms the principals of Poblacht na hÉireann. Other provisions include that ‘it shall be the first duty of the government of the Republic to make provision for the physical, mental and spiritual well-being of the children’. Also that ‘the Irish Republic fully realises the necessity of abolishing the present odious, degrading and foreign Poor Law System’ and that it ‘shall be our duty to promote the development of the Nation’s resources, to increase the productivity of its soil, to exploit its mineral deposits, peat bogs, and fisheries; its waterways and harbours, in the interests and for the benefit of the Irish people’.