Norton, William

Tuesday, 24 March 1942

Dáil Éireann Debate
Vol. 86 No. 1

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Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Government Loans.

asked the Minister for Finance if he will state in respect of the ten years 1932 to 1941 the total net sum raised by the Government by means of loans issued to the public, the nominal value of the sto...More Button

Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Pressed Beef Exports.

Could the Minister say whether any negotiations are in progress with the British Government with a view to resuming this trade?More Button

Are the negotiations concluded, or have they broken down?More Button

Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Turbary on County Kildare Estate.

asked the Minister for Lands if he will state whether the Land Commission propose to allot the turbary on the More O'Ferral estate at Ballyna, Moyvalley, County Kildare; and, if so, when the allotment...More Button

Can the Minister say when the scheme is likely to be completed?More Button

Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - County Kildare Lands.

asked the Minister for Lands if he will state whether the Land Commission propose to acquire the estate of Mr. L. Nolan, Rosetown and Gragadder, Kilcock, County Kildare; and, if so, how the matter now...More Button

asked the Minister for Lands if he will state whether the Land Commission have acquired the lands of Michael and Joseph Cussen, on the Cloncurry estate, at Killeighter, Kilcock, County Kildare; and, i...More Button

Is the Minister aware that that is exactly the same reply as that which he gave to me on 6th March, 1941? Will the Minister say whether the matter has been taken any further since he gave that reply?More Button

Why?More Button

Order of Business.

The Central Bank Bill is down for Second Reading to-morrow. This is a very long, a very technical and very complex Bill. It seems to me that the Second Reading debate on it will not be of as satisfac...More Button

The Bill is such that many amendments cannot be moved to it. In my opinion the Committee Stage of it will be quite unimportant.More Button

Will the Minister consider the arrangement that I have suggested? When informed of the point of view of the Minister for Finance on the Bill, we will be in a position to discuss it much more intellige...More Button

Will the Minister get some consideration for the proposal I have made?More Button

When may we expect to get some information as to what the situation is?More Button

Committee on Finance. - Electricity Supply Board (Superannuation) Bill, 1942—Second Stage.

What is the name of that Act?More Button

That is what you are relying on, an Act of Queen Victoria— you are picking Victoria's brains.More Button

In all the discussions on the necessity for the provision of pensions for the staff of the Electricity Supply Board the concern has been to ensure that what was thought to be an inadvertent omission f...More Button

What does the Minister say is not in the Bill?More Button

If a man, having contracted to submit a dispute to this tribunal, and having paid contributions under this Bill for a period of 20 years, withdrew his labour, he broke the continuity of his service, a...More Button

The Minister is merely logic-chopping.More Button

The purpose of this Bill is to compel a man, on the offer of a pension, to agree to submit any claim or any matter in dispute to the tribunal, and he is prevented from going on strike by the use of th...More Button

We will come to that in a moment. Why does the Minister want to have the right to nominate this member of the board?More Button

The Minister is being funny instead of being impartial.More Button

Yes, somebody must do it, but in the case of the Railway Acts we did not let the Minister do it. We went into the courts and got the Chief Justice to do the nomination.More Button

They have no coal now, at any rate.More Button

This tribunal is nominated, to the extent of one-third, by the board, to the extent of one-third by the workers, and the chairman is nominated by the Minister. I object to giving the Minister power t...More Button

Not if they want to. I want it made mandatory on the board.More Button

Why are the workers protesting against the Bill then?More Button

Did the Minister hear what I said on Section 13?More Button

It would be a preposterous suggestion if anybody had made it.More Button

What about the Ennis one and the bootlaces?More Button

If the Minister thinks that the Electricity Supply Board have set too high a standard of wages, what is the tribunal expected to do under Section 11—reduce wages?More Button

Four was not my figure; that was Deputy McGilligan's figure.More Button

Anybody will do you, of course.More Button

The Minister will not get any certificates for excessive energy from anybody.More Button

Go and look at the bread queues. The Minister could not see them a fortnight ago.More Button

I am not worrying about what the Minister says.More Button

The Minister appears to think that, in the course of the discussion, it has been suggested from this side of the House that the workers are opposed to this Bill when, in fact, they are not. I was in ...More Button

They do not want a tribunal at all, and what we said in this House reflects their views on the matter.More Button

Does the Minister not know that the clerical staff of the Electricity Supply Board, at a meeting held on February 23, unanimously passed a resolution describing this Bill as a most retrograde one?More Button

Are they in favour of the Bill?More Button

Written Answers. - Duration of Civil Service Pensions.

asked the Minister for Finance if he will state the average duration of pensions in respect of established civil servants who retire on pension at (a) 60, and (b) 65 years.More Button

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