MacEntee, SeánTuesday, 5 May 1942 |
Dáil Éireann Debate
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Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Appointment of Commissioners.
I propose to take questions 6 and 7 together. The reply to question 6 is in the negative. The selection of a person or per sons to act as commissioner or commissioners for a local authority rests enti...
Referendum Bill, 1941—From the Seanad.
I move that the Committee agree with the Seanad in the following amendment:— Section 8. In sub-section (1), page 4, all words from and including the word “and” in line 41 to and including the word “G...
In order to meet, as far as practicable, points that were made in this House and the Seanad.
If the Deputy's pronouncements have occasioned anxiety in the country, well and good—they are to relieve anxiety. Amendment agreed to.
I move that the Committee agree with the Seanad in the following further amendments, which are consequential on amendment No. 1:— Section 8. In page 4, sub-section (3) deleted. Section 9. In sub-sec...
I move that the Committee agree with the Seanad in amendment No. 5:— Section 17. In sub-sections (1) and (2) on page 8, and in sub-section (3) on page 9, after the word “Eireann” wherever it occurs i...
I move that the Committee agree with the Seanad in amendment No. 6:— Section 17. In sub-section (7), page 9, line 28, after the word “election” the words “the following provisions shall apply and hav...
I move the following amendment in substitution for amendment No. 7:— First Schedule. In rule 29, page 27, after the word “constituency” in line 43, to insert the words “and any member of Seanad Eirean...
I move that the Committee agree with the Seanad in amendment No. 8:— First Schedule. At the end of rule 29, page 27, a new paragraph added as follows:— Where the polling day at a constitutional refer...
County Management (Amendment) Bill, 1942—Committee and Final Stages.
I move amendment No. 1:— At the end of the section, page 4, to add a new sub-section as follows:— (2) For the purposes of the selection by the Local Appointments Commissioners, in pursuance of sub-sec...
I move amendment No. 5:— In page 5, at the end of the section, to add a new sub-section as follows:— (3) A commissioner who is or has been a member of a body which is a subsidiary body (within the mea...
Seeds and Fertilisers Supply Bill, 1942—Second Stage.
I move that the Bill be now read a Second Time. This Bill is intended to give legal sanction to measures already taken by county councils to provide seeds and fertilisers on loan terms for cultivator...
Sections 3 and 5.
The purpose of the section is to enable sales to be made on credit. The section provides:— (1) Whenever the council of a county has, during the period to which this Act applies, provided a supply of...
I take it that the seeds will be purchased in the ordinary way from the seed merchants, and that a purchaser will then be told what they are going to cost him. He will know that in advance, but, on t...
No, because the county council itself is supposed to bear its own bad debts less 50 per cent. up to the overriding figure which is set out in the Schedule.
Fifty per cent. That is not a very limited extent.
And also has a lien on the crop.
I think the purpose of this Bill has been misunderstood both by Deputy Hughes and Deputy Cogan. It is not a Bill to provide agricultural credit in the broad general sense of that term. If it were, i...
I was just about to come to that. It has been said that this legislation has not met the position, and that in fact it has been signally unsuccessful. The code, as you know, was in operation until 1...
Yes, the cottier. Bearing that in mind, I think the figures I have given indicate that the scheme has been generally appreciated and it has served its purpose.
We always have people who say, unless you prefer to give money out lavishly, that the scheme does not go far enough. In present circumstances the substantial farmer has the joint stock banks and the ...
They have been very good on the whole. Under the 1939 scheme there is about £78 owing out of the total. For 1940 there is something more than that—£2,800—but I expect more will come in in the course...
I could not say. If a man becomes a guarantor he must accept the responsibilities of guarantors. Keep a grip on common sense.
They might not have power to give a loan to a parish council, but they could enter into such an arrangement with the parish council as to ensure that the council would take a reasonable responsibility...
If the Deputy will give me particulars of the cumbersome nature of the procedure, I shall look into the matter. So far as I can see, in any of the schemes that have been operating, the procedure does...
I do not know whether there is any desire to amend the Bill. It is the type of legislation which has gone through the House in the last three years. If we could get the Committee and remaining Stage...
Committee on Finance. - Seeds and Fertilisérs Supply Bill, 1942—Money Resolution.
I move:— That it is expedient to authorise such payments out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas as are necessary to give effect to any Act of the present Session to authorise and validate the provis...
The maximum sum is £25,000.
Yes.
The unavoidable losses.
Losses incurred even where the county councils exercise due care.
I do not think so.
Does the Deputy want a reply now?
I really cannot appreciate Deputy MacEoin's point of view. I am told that, simply because people will not have the moral courage to refuse when a person comes to them asking to be guaranteed in regar...
Maybe so, but even amongst neighbours there must be a certain amount of backbone. That is apparently what Deputy MacEoin thinks we can find a reasonable substitute for at a cost of £25,000 to the Sta...
No, not necessarily.
£25,000 is the overriding limit for the whole country.
That really is an excellent argument for the deletion of Section 6 of the Bill.
I dealt with that point. Money Resolution agreed to and reported.
Committee on Finance. - Seeds and Fertilisers Supply Bill, 1942—Committee and Final Stages.
Perhaps I might explain the principle that was followed in relation to this matter. We got £25,000 to divide. How was that going to be done? It seemed to me that the reasonable way was to divide it...
We are not anxious to encourage default.
That might be so. The facts are not as the Deputy suggests. In Cork the total cost was £11,000.
We could not work on that basis.
The other method serves the purpose equally well.
£55,000.
I do not propose to give them.
If the Deputy wishes he can put down a question. Question put and agreed to. Question proposed: “That the Title be the Title to the Bill.”
I am not an agriculturist.
The Title of this Bill has been consecrated by tradition. It has been introduced under that Title for the last 50 years. The Deputy does not expect me to change it now. Question put and agreed to.
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