Belton, PatrickTuesday, 4 July 1933 |
Dáil Éireann Debate
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In Committee on Finance. - Vote 41—Local Government and Public Health (Resumed).
I wish to emphasise the point raised by the last speaker, and to say that it is only fair to the building trade, and to the country generally, that there should be an equivocal expression from the Min...
I did not think the Deputy was here or I would not have said it. In business matters, the Minister is a reasonable man, and when a fair case is put up to him he will deal with it on its merits. Ther...
Under that Local Government Act of '98, the agricultural grant was standardised at half the rate on agricultural land for the year 1898 and, although the rates increased every year, up to 1924, that a...
No, sir, it was not. It was the result of the agitation of the farmers organised by the Agricultural League and, when President De Valera thought it was coming over, he put down a motion in this Hous...
I want to trace the history of the Agricultural Grant and to impress upon Ministers' minds that when they are giving an Agricultural Grant they are not giving a dole from day to day.
If I could skip a few of my debts, I should be glad to skip a few years. If the Minister would promise that for every year we skip in debate, we will be forgiven a year's arrears of land annuities an...
This economical administration, these enemies of big salaries, only asked for the member of the Government whose salary is somewhere between £1,500 and £2,000, 20 guineas a day for his appearance, to ...
This was to respect the law. This was to remind the wreckers that they must not wreck, to quote the words of President de Valera in College Green. This was to keep the wreckers quiet. He tried aft...
Do what?
The Dublin County Council is composed of law-abiding citizens.
See the good example we set. See all the law we taught the Front Bench. We are promised a big drive in housing by the Minister—the housing of the working-classes. My friend, Deputy O'Kelly—or Deput...
I am speaking, and I am quite enough here. I hope that the back benches opposite will get filled up, that my argument will be replied to, and knocked out, if that is possible. I know the Deputies op...
Let Deputy Corry talk away; he has nothing else to do.
How many did your crowd knock down?
And we paid sixpence in the pound in County Dublin for six years for the damage you did. That would build a lot, Martin.
Why did you not come in to do that in 1922?
What do you make out of them?
You do not make a sufficient profit on them to counterbalance the loss of the agricultural grant.
It is Deputy Corry who is with the wrong Party.
It should be cheaper.
You will not forget one of them—the league that brought you in here.
And your Government took it back this year.
And took back £450,000 this year.
Are the farmers not paying that twice over to England to-day?
May I remind the Deputy of one point which he has forgotten? Is the County Council of Cork a legal body or not?
What did the Deputy lose in Cork last week?
What about the circular?
They can all starve together now.
County Dublin.
We wiped the boards with you last week.
It is not necessary to be a member of the House in order to get the record.
The boards of health know more about it.
At what rate?
It is true.
Will the Minister explain that.
Might I correct the Minister——
The Minister's figures are not correct.
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