Collins, MichaelTuesday, 28 February 1922 |
Dáil Éireann Debate
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RATIFICATION OF MINISTERIAL APPOINTMENTS.
A Chinn Chomhairle, on a point of order, a name is before the House. I submit if there are questions to be asked of Ministers they should be put down on the question paper.
If the Minister of Finance is going to be drawn into a discussion I must ask leave to reply.
Certainly not.
The Deputy for College Green accused me of denying that this was the sovereign assembly of the Irish people. I did not deny that, and I do not deny it. This is the Parliament of the Irish nation, an...
RECEPTION OF DEPUTATIONS.
I rise to support the motion moved by the Minister for Trade and Commerce. The sooner deputations understand that we are not a public meeting the better. There are Ministers working very hard, day af...
I suggest that we hear the Total Abstinence Association, and that the others be ruled out.
DISCUSSION ON MOTION RE FRANCHISE BILL RESUMED.
A person who leaves a motion on an important subject until the last moment cannot feel very strongly about it. Every motion properly sent to us, so far as we know, has been put down on the agenda in ...
FINANCIAL STATEMENT.
A Chinn Chomhairle, the members of the Dáil have already in their hands the Statement of Accounts which I have got printed in two parts in the old way in order to show the accounts more clearly—one fo...
That was a rushed amount; it should not have been charged like this. It should have been charged as a separate item. The Dáil Cabinet has been apprised of it, and they know exactly what it is. It s...
No, it should not. If these items had been vouched none of them would have appeared here at all; but I suppose the London office being rushed, and Mr. O'Brien being away, they overlooked the matter. ...
That matter is so plain in the accounts that nobody could question it. The statement of accounts proves that this could not have happened. But it is not twenty thousand dollars, they said; I think it...
This one hundred thousand dollars, which is twenty-three thousand pounds, is the amount which came to hand on the 12th January, and it was drawn in America previous to the 31st December. I have inclu...
It only needs the authority of the Dáil to publish them. So far as the Home Accounts are concerned they are going to the Press. On the last occasion we decided to publish the statement of accounts for...
I did not know about that item until I saw it in the accounts. It was decided by the Dáil Cabinet that certain finances be given the Mid-Armagh Comhairle Ceanntair. £149 was given and £74 was paid ba...
That is always taken for granted—that a Minister would always answer questions put to him. I will answer any question at the Dáil here, or if any member of the Dáil writes to me between the Dáil meet...
In reply to the Deputy, I presume the money will be refunded. The Ministry paid £200 over a certain case, and that, so far as the Finance Department was concerned, was an end of it. I saw in the Pre...
I would like to associate myself with it as being the person responsible for this end of the work. I am glad President de Valera included England, Scotland and Wales. I would like to include two oth...
All these places that did subscribe deserve very well of the Dáil, but the place that deserves best of all—and I have always maintained it —is this country (hear, hear). I do not want to express anyt...
The American statement I read out will have to be prepared for publication. All these Home Accounts are going to the Press, but the American Accounts I gave out would not be suitable in their present...
These accounts are prepared in exactly the same form as in July last, so they can be given out.
ESTIMATES FOR HALF-YEAR.
The Estimates are already before the House, and I do not know if the usual procedure was that they should be put forward at the same time as the Finance Report, or taken immediately after. Then, if a...
Yes; that is what we always did.
Now, this is the form these Estimates were always submitted in, and if the Deputy for Monaghan does not remember what “Special Work” means, his memory must be extremely short indeed. Estimates have g...
In regard to Home Affairs, reference might be made by some Deputy to the fact that the expenditure for the six months was not as high as the Estimates put forward. If a Minister is wise he always loo...
It is not as big a margin as what you asked for.
You asked for a margin of something like £7,000.
I have not yet received such an application, and even if I had received such a one this morning I could not have put it in the Estimate. It is not since we came into this House that this thing is prin...
I submit it is the same as number nine on the agenda.
No; I always presented the Estimates.
Is not that an amendment?
With regard to one question asked about the Estimates and one supplementary question, I may at once say that these Estimates are prepared in precisely the same form as for the last meeting at which Es...
With regard to the question of the police force, any police force that is raised must not be a political force, but a national force (hear, hear). The police force that is going to be raised is going...
We gave it to you and we know how you treated it.
Hear, hear.
On a point of order. Must not that motion be put without amendment or discussion according to Standing Orders?
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