Hayes, MichaelFriday, 23 November 1928 |
Dáil Éireann Debate
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ORDER OF BUSINESS.
That is to say that public business will continue all day to-day. Deputy Ryan's motion, which is the first motion in Private Members' time on the Order Paper, will be taken as the first opposed busin...
That is, if the Appropriation Bill passes through all its stages to-day?
APPROPRIATION BILL, 1928—SECOND STAGE (RESUMED).
Let us keep to the third person.
A physical ailment prevented the Ceann Comhairle from listening to it yesterday.
That would be a third irrelevant speech on tariffs.
Oh, now!
Now we have it that nobody has said it has anything to do with the Appropriation Bill, we will pass on.
The salaries of these architects are not in this Bill. Let us keep to the Bill.
What did the Deputy mean by that remark?
The Minister made no such suggestion. The suggestion was made by Deputy Flinn, whose suggestions are uniformly and persistently made against the occupants of the Chair, whoever they may be and whoeve...
I will not hear the Deputy further.
The Minister——
What did the Deputy say? Will the Deputy repeat that?
“The privilege of the cat.” Is that what the Deputy said?
Deputy Flinn's conduct towards the Chair is intolerable, and I call attention to it. I name Deputy Flinn for insolence to the Chair.
SUSPENSION OF A DEPUTY.
The question is: “That Deputy Flinn be suspended from the service of the House.”
I think the motion is carried.
The motion is carried. Deputy Flinn will withdraw from the House.
I heard no Division challenged.
The motion is carried, and I accordingly ask Deputy Flinn to withdraw from the House.
I do not know if we can now discuss the question of what has happened. The Deputy asked me the question: Is it in order for a Deputy to say that a Minister is making a privileged attack? I did not he...
Deputy Flinn will have to withdraw in any event, as he has been asked. The decision of the House has been given and Deputy Flinn has been asked to withdraw in accordance with that decision, and I thi...
Perhaps the Deputy will allow me to say this. A certain question has been put from the Chair and decided, and we cannot have any point of order raised on that —that matter is now decided. The Deputy ...
Not now.
Will the Deputy sit down.
Deputy Coburn must sit down or he must be named.
There is no use getting into a state over this matter. This whole question is one which can be decided. A particular decision has been taken.
That may be. The decision has been taken and it cannot be gone into now. It may be gone into at a future date, but it cannot be gone into now.
I gave Deputy Flinn an opportunity of saying what he actually stated.
Let us get clear on this. This is rather a disorderly discussion. Deputy Flinn has taken up a particular attitude——
That attitude has been consistent towards the occupants of the Chair. When Deputy Padraic Hogan (Clare) was Leas-Cheann Comhairle he was told by Deputy Flinn that a ruling he had given was a “damn sh...
I am asked a question and I must answer it. Further, when other Deputies were in the Chair—when the Leas-Cheann Comhairle was in the Chair, the same thing happened constantly. The Ceann Comhairle and...
I did not refer to the Deputy at all. I have no knowledge of anything the Deputy said yesterday—not the slightest.
The statement is on record. I have given it very careful consideration. It was definite. However, that makes no difference. If there is a misunderstanding, it can be cleared up. If there is no mi...
I will not. I suggest to the Deputy that there is a method by which a solution can be found before Wednesday. I will not take a motion now. I disagree with the suggestion that any other Deputy was ...
That may be. It seems to me that the Deputy was introducing a particular meaning in the Minister's speech deal-with the Leas-Cheann Comhairle which the Minister's speech did not contain. It is quite ...
I would have taken Deputy Flinn's word at once as to what he had said. If he said the words were so-and-so I would accept that at once, and I accept Deputy Briscoe's statement as to what was said.
I do not think that is possible. I asked the Deputy to repeat what he said. He refused to repeat it, and therefore I had no means of determining what was said except by my first impression. I think...
We cannot continue now. I accept completely Deputy Briscoe's account.
The Ceann Comhairle will have to have his hearing attended to.
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