Briscoe, Robert

Friday, 19 June 1931

Dáil Éireann Debate
Vol. 39 No. 6

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I do not want to go at length into the reasons I have for opposing this Bill. I think the Dáil is satisfied with the experience it has had in the City of Dublin. The Minister tried to explain, as De...More Button

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I am not going to discuss the results of their administration, but I wish to say that the Minister is wrong when he argues that his idea of suppressing councils, or of intervening in their business, w...More Button

I think the Minister said so when Deputy O'Kelly read a paragraph from the paper.More Button

Can I deal with it in a different way? The Management Committee of Grangegorman Mental Asylum met recently for the purpose of giving contracts for the supply of certain articles for the coming year.More Button

Is this not a Bill to give more freedom for the suppression of local authorities? Is it not a fact that local bodies have been suppressed for refusing to appoint certain officers? Can we not discuss ...More Button

I want to show that the Minister has sufficient powers without this Bill. I want to illustrate that by pointing out that where local bodies decide to give contracts to a native firm, at prices somewh...More Button

There is no use in trying to argue that the Minister's system is going to bring any advantage to the ratepayers. I want to prove that the Minister's idea of local government will bring nothing but di...More Button

Is that what the Minister is worried about?More Button

The Minister can scarcely wait until he gets the powers he is seeking. He is so anxious to secure those dictatorial powers that he can hardly wait until next week. He wants to be busy this afternoon ...More Button

I consider this Bill is sufficiently important, even on this stage, to try and think out fresh arguments in the hope that some members of the House will change their minds and decide to vote in a diff...More Button

The dead-weight debt of the city has increased almost twice as much as it was before the Corporation was suppressed. That is a disadvantage from which the city will continue to suffer as a result of ...More Button

Partly in respect of the construction of houses.More Button

I do not know what we can talk about, then. I observe Deputy Gorey saying something, and I would like to know what it is.More Button

It is a pity to miss what Deputy Gorey said. His interjections are usually so high-toned that they give this House extra prestige.More Button

Deputy Gorey could not interject anything about this Bill. He could interject something about myself. I would like to hear what his references to myself were, because they must be so original.More Button

Deputy Hogan suggested to the Minister that he has no great experience of local government administration. He has some experience of a Ministerial position, but in the matter of practical administrat...More Button

The Minister is still suffering because a private Deputy attempted to show him the way to correct a mistake he made in his own legislation. That was a terribly dangerous thing for any private Deputy ...More Button

The answers we get from the Minister are few and far between.More Button

I am not interested in them at the moment. I think the Minister got his fill of librarians on the Second Stage. If the Minister were making alterations in the system of local government at the reque...More Button

And that observation?More Button

Sometimes one looks at the Minister in the hope that by looking at him one may get inspiration.More Button

I am afraid I must confess that I have looked at him for seventeen minutes; I have not been able to get inspiration, and so I will sit down.More Button

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