Good, JohnWednesday, 1 July 1925 |
Dáil Éireann Debate
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During the time one has had the privilege of being a member of this House one has heard many discussions on this interesting problem of unemployment, but during all these discussions very little infor...
I am asked what my proposal is. May I first of all state the case as one sees it, and then we will be better able to understand what is the best way of meeting it. The Minister for Industry and Com...
Let me explain. I will not deal with it. The Deputy can deal with the point if he wishes. I do not want to take up too much of the time of the House. He can deal with these points, but there are c...
I would like the Deputy to lay more stress on the causes which brought about the high cost of living in the Free State. On that we will have a discussion on another day.
I was not going to confine myself to this question of the wages in the Free State being in excess of what they are in Great Britain. Unfortunately, the railways are compelled to adopt conditions in th...
You apply to these the same conditions as you apply to one of the leading metropolitan lines in London, where hundreds of trains pass through a certain station in a day.
But to apply to a little station in the West of Ireland the same conditions which you would apply to one of these great railway stations in Great Britain is really an absurdity.
I am sorry to be worrying the Deputy so much, but to get at the bottom of these problems it is necessary occasionally to bring out these home truths. I am not bringing out this particular case with t...
When that trade was driven out of the city and thousands were left unemployed, I say it is unfair to come to the Government and demand from them either employment or the dole.
Where was the responsibility on the part of the Government for the fact that large numbers of people were left unemployed in that particular case?
I pass from that to another aspect of the question.
In the different proposals brought before us by the Government in the Budget and in other ways, their endeavour has been, and I admit it is an honest endeavour, to try and get additional industries st...
Are these charges for labour high in the city of Dublin? In my own trade, and I have spoken of it more than once in this House——
And I will speak about it again, because I like speaking of things I know something about. In my own trade I have spoken of the rate of wages, and I will have something to say about it again this aft...
In my own trade I stated more than once, and if my statement was inaccurate it should be challenged, that the rates of wages paid in that particular industry are the highest in Europe. But they are n...
If the Government had its way, I am quite sure it would like to see all those engaged in that industry getting a reasonable wage. We all like to see that. May I say as an employer I want to see a ma...
As I said, I do not want to see any man not get as much as he earns, but I do want to see that what he gets is earned. Now, in connection with these high charges on the one side, one would not compl...
Are the numbers of hours worked in the west eight hours, divided over a long period?
The whole story is coming out.
What rate would the same porter get at Holyhead?
And how much would he get here?
There is an excess here, so it could not be higher at Holyhead.
Then Kingsbridge is higher than Holyhead.
I do not like to interrupt the Deputy, but his statement is not quite accurate. The works referred to were closed for twelve months, and in order that they might be re-opened and have a chance of con...
Hear, hear.
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