Mulcahy, Richard James

Thursday, 19 October 1939

Dáil Éireann Debate
Vol. 77 No. 6

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Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Lighting Restrictions.

As and from the 18th November, is a black-out of private houses all over the country to be in operation?More Button

By a black-out, I mean that light is to be prevented from emanating from private houses all over the country.More Button

The fact is that there has not been a general distribution of information with regard to this order throughout the country. When is it intended there should be a general distribution of information?More Button

Statement of Government Policy (Resumed).

I should like to ask the Minister if he can tell the House now that it is not his intention to increase taxation during the current financial year; that, if it is necessary to raise additional moneys ...More Button

Admitting that the only opening for them was agricultural work or domestic service?More Button

I asked that question, but it was a lot clearer than that.More Button

I wanted the Minister to be precise.More Button

Does the House understand, in so far as the Minister envisages the situation at the present time, that he considers there will be a substantial increase in the number of people that will he dependent ...More Button

I am afraid I chose the last day for which information might be expected to be available.More Button

I would like the Minister to keep the shipping services under review, because I think too smooth a surface has been put on the information he has got, and that as the shipping services and the goods a...More Button

I am only asking the Minister to look across the Channel and to keep his eye on this end of it.More Button

If the Minister will tell me that he is looking carefully at the matter, I will not ask him to talk.More Button

I would like to submit to the Minister that we own the goods that are shipped, and the route on which they are shipped from the Port of Dublin is only half the distance.More Button

Very well.More Button

And so would I.More Button

Oh, now! Being Minister for Finance formerly, the Minister could say a lot more than that on the subject of the roads.More Button

On the last day we discussed this matter, the point was raised that the censorship was being carried out in a manner which conflicted with the general principles expounded here by the Minister when th...More Button

Would it be completely outside the powers and duties of the postal censorship to take some information from a letter and pass it on, say, either to the police with regard to an ordinary internal matt...More Button

I would like to ask the Minister whether before issuing his book for motorists he would arrange that a kind of trial spin would be taken from Dublin to Dundalk and back by some person who would know t...More Button


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