de Valera, EamonTuesday, 1 July 1941 |
Dáil Éireann Debate
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Emergency Powers (Continuance) Bill, 1941—First Stage.
Immediately. Second Stage ordered for Tuesday, 8th July, 1941.
Adjournment Motion: Debate on Turf Production.
I am very glad to learn from the remarks that have been made by the Deputies who have spoken that, for once, the action which the Government have taken is approved of, that is, concentrating in one ma...
Let us concentrate then on trying to get a stand-still for him. By all means do it. But you are not going to improve matters by letting those at the other end send up the price. It would even be an...
You know it from nobody. It is not a fact.
The facts are that whenever the Government has to consider any of those questions it considers them in terms of the least strong elements of the community, always.
It does not matter what is increased; it can be shown that it is in the interests of the poorer sections of the community it is done.
I know nothing about the officials——
All I do know is that in any of those matters, such as the question of the stand-still order or any other order of that kind, every one of those efforts to keep prices down has been made in the intere...
It is not humbug; it is the truth.
If there is humbug, it is on the part of people who will not think of the poorer sections of the community, or their best interests. (Interruptions).
I have been saying how essential it is, if the poor in the cities, the people who have not got the amount of clothing that other people have, are to get fuel at a reasonable price, that the price that...
It is not wages.
Is the Deputy helping by talking about that? Is not the price something which these people, with their own organisations, could look after? Does it help to be talking about a particular thing when, ...
That can be ascertained by means of a Parliamentary question.
We want to get every man who can cut turf or assist in the spreading of it. You need two men for every slanesman so it is not necessary to be a perfect slanesman in order to help. It is not very dif...
It is one of the most difficult—the Deputy knows that. It is hard to take people who have been accustomed to city life and city work and put them in isolation on a bog.
Did it succeed? It did not.
In the case of those who are in the country and near bogs, they should not get a penny in unemployment assistance.
If they will not go out and do the work done by women and children, they should not get unemployment assistance.
If that is so, there is nothing to answer; but I am explaining what the attitude would be if it were otherwise. Undoubtedly, among the people in the cities and some of the larger centres there should...
It would be a mistaken impression if that were understood. I want to make it quite clear that if we are going to get the extra amount for which we are looking, we hope to get the most of it from those...
Why?
Why?
Surely they can have two cuttings or perhaps three?
We are asking them to make a special effort.
We are doing our utmost as far as they are concerned, but what they produce will not be nearly sufficient and unless we have more turf from old producers, I am afraid there will be a definite shortage...
Surely that must have been altogether exceptional?
Surely the Parliamentary Secretary should get some reasonable time to reply.
I want to be clear about this. Is the suggestion that the debate can end now or go on to 11 o'clock, and that there will be no continuation of the debate to-morrow except the reply of the Parliamenta...
How can we secure that it will be used for that purpose?
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