Fitzgerald-Kenney, JamesWednesday, 10 June 1931 |
Dáil Éireann Debate
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Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Design of Motor Omnibuses.
There are 189 motor omnibuses plying in the Dublin area which are not constructed so as completely to separate the driver from the passengers.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Prosecutions Against 'Bus Drivers.
The answers to questions (1), (2) and (3) are as follows:—
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Sanitation of Kerry School.
I can find no record in my Department of the receipt of a report from the medical officer with regard to the insanitary condition of the Rathmore school building, but the reports of the inspectors sho...
I am not aware.
Financial Resolutions. - Public Charitable Hospitals (Amendment) Bill, 1931.—Report.
What hospital?
The Deputy stated that they could not be. On the Committee Stage of the Bill I stated that it was very lamentable that this discussion should have been conducted in the terms in which it was conducte...
You are also taking money from County Louth, and from County Galway, because Galway hospital is now one of the hospitals under the voluntary scheme.
Since to-day. That shows how little Deputies opposite have really considered how these schemes work.
Deputies could not be expected to know, but I am bringing it forward to show that the standpoint of Deputy Dr. Ryan, that it is Dublin hospitals alone that benefit, is entirely unjustifiable, and has ...
As far as my experience goes a person who goes to a Dublin hospital pays the amount of money he is able reasonably to pay out of his own pocket, and if sent by a board of health, the board pays. As f...
Is the Deputy aware that there is a Committee of Reference to be set up under the Bill?
The Deputy is quite wrong.
I offered a compromise and it was refused.
May I say that my temper is never ruffled.
The Deputy does not know the facts. It was Deputy Davin suggested 33? per cent., and I said yes.
No. The hospitals which were able to bring themselves under the provisions of the original Bill that is that they received voluntary subscriptions, and that they gave 25 per cent. of their beds to th...
Surely Dublin Union hospital is.
I think the Corporation contributes to other hospitals.
They have to support the Dublin Union hospital, which has got something like 1,500 beds.
It is a matter for the House.
Deputy Dr. Ryan will not withdraw his amendment, so what is the use of talking? If he wanted to, Deputy Allen will not allow him. He said so.
I know perfectly well that in no circumstances is the Deputy prepared to withdraw his amendment.
It is really a most lamentable thing that Deputy Dr. Ryan did not take this course before, instead of making a long speech and having the long discussion, and I think myself, the very harmful discussi...
I move amendment 3:— In page 3, line 52, Section 5 (4) (b) immediately after the word “concerned” to add the words “and the reasons for the adoption of such proportions.” This is rather ancillary to t...
I move amendment 4:— In page 3, Section 5, to insert before paragraph (c) a new paragraph as follows:— “(c) for the purpose of making the report to the Minister under the foregoing paragraph of this s...
In amendment 3 you have “and the reasons for the adoption of such proportions.” Of course the Committee must give its reasons in writing. The Committee of Reference also has full powers to see any b...
The old point of statutory declarations still remains. The accounts will be submitted to me as a matter of fact under the old Act, and I am entitled to insist upon a statutory declaration, and in fact...
Perhaps the Chair would waive the rules and allow Deputy O'Kelly to make whatever remarks he wishes.
I do not want to interrupt the Deputy, but I may possibly help him if I explain how the percentage is arrived at. Various representatives of the hospitals came together, they then decided that they w...
They did not kick, but they were not very pleased.
I think it was very unfair to talk shop to the Deputy when he was ill.
For the future that will be a matter for the Committee of Reference.
The Committee of Reference will make the allocation.
As far as the last part of the Deputy's statement is concerned, of course the local bodies will get no money from the Minister for Local Government until the scheme has been before him, and naturally ...
I do not think there is any necessity.
For the reason that the Hospitals Committee will have drafted the whole scheme and will have themselves put forward what is their view as to their needs and requirements. That is what they do now. Th...
I think there is really only one local body in each county. Question put and agreed to. Question—“That the Bill do now pass”—put and agreed to.
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