Hogan, PatrickWednesday, 2 November 1932 |
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Very interesting, but I do not think it is relevant.
That is not a point of order anyhow.
The Deputy is entitled to ask the question but I suggest that this is not the appropriate time to intervene. The Minister should be allowed to develop his statement.
The Minister is entitled to make his speech. This constant interruption is not leading us anywhere.
I said that the Minister was entitled to make his speech.
It looks very like it.
In Committee on Finance—Estimates for Public Services. - Vote 26—Law Charges.
I cannot allow this——
I cannot allow this. We are discussing the administration of the Attorney-General's Department and we must confine ourselves to that.
Deputy Hogan said the late administration set up a standard of justice which was very high. That was merely a passing reference to the administration of which he was a member. He did not go into det...
I cannot allow a discussion on the late administration—it is not at all in order. We will never get anywhere if this is allowed.
On that reasoning we could open up every case from 1921 up, obviously that could not occur on this Vote. I have had the advantage, or disadvantage, of hearing Deputies Hogan and Fitzgerald-Kenney, a...
This is not a discussion on the administration of the late Government. We are concerned now with the administration of the Attorney-General's Department on this Vote and we must confine ourselves to ...
That is a matter of law.
That is not for me to determine what is the usual procedure.
The Minister is trying to raise an issue with which I am not concerned at all. I am concerned with the administration of the Attorney-General's Department.
The Minister is not entitled to show that what the late Administration did in 1924, '25, '26 or up to now, is right or wrong. He is entitled to show that what the Attorney-General did in the administ...
It has no reference to the administration of the Attorney-General's Department.
The Minister is entitled to make these statements. He is entitled to say the late Government did this, that or the other, but I am not going to allow this Dáil to debate matters that the late Govern...
The Minister will proceed on the lines I have already indicated.
I think the Ceann Comhairle has already indicated that the responsibility rests with each Deputy as to the visitors he introduces into the Gallery. The Gallery is not the place for demonstration eith...
Anyway, it does not arise on this Vote.
I shall allow the Deputy to clear it up in so far as his name has been mentioned but it cannot be discussed further.
I cannot allow that to pass. The Minister for Finance did not state a deliberate falsehood. That is tantamount to saying that the Minister had stated what is a lie.
The Deputy will have to withdraw the words “deliberate falsehood.”
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