Morrissey, DanielTuesday, 16 July 1946 |
Dáil Éireann Debate
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Private Notice Question. - Position of Parliamentary Secretaries.
Will the Taoiseach say what other pensions Dr. Ward is qualified to receive?
Order of Business.
Is the Tánaiste in a position to indicate now who will be in charge of the Public Health Bill?
Air Navigation and Transport Bill, 1946—Money Resolution. - Air Navigation and Transport Bill, 1946—Committee and Final Stages.
Can the Minister give even an approximate idea of what the expense under this section is likely to be—roughly?
Per——?
I understand that. Question put and agreed to. SECTION 17.
Am I to take it that the intention is that the maximum number of directors will be appointed arising out of the new arrangement?
Air Navigation and Transport Bill, 1946—Money Resolution. - Industrial Relations Bill, 1946—Committee Stage.
I do not agree with the Minister. It is more essential now than later that we should get the most suitable person. I put it to the Minister that if a person whom he considers would be a suitable per...
Has the Minister considered that the type of person we are going to appoint to this position will put aside his present position of responsibility and take the risk of taking up one for which the full...
The Minister says that the ordinary courts have to be used, and that this court need not necessarily be used. It is because we want to see it used to the fullest possible extent—which I am sure the M...
I was going to suggest, in view of what the Minister has said not only with regard to the conference but with regard to paragraph (b), which I think is the only radical departure in the amendment, tha...
I must confess that I do not see how the Minister can get over another difficulty. I take it that the deputy chairman will not be a member of the court, and will have no association with it or with i...
I cannot see any way out of it. I put it to the Minister that a deputy chairman should only be called in when it is absolutely vital to do so. If the work to be done by the court could afford to wai...
It strikes me that possibly that type of person would be more suitable to act as registrar to this court rather than an ordinary solicitor or barrister. The type of work to be done by the registrar t...
I think some protection is called for particularly in view of some amendments which the Minister proposes to make at a later stage — for example, amendment No. 70. By that amendment you are going to...
You will on amendment No. 70. While there is something to be said for that, I think it is a very dangerous principle and one which will have to be closely examined when we come to deal with that part...
If the court were to come to a decision, even a majority decision, that by itself would be a reflection on the chairman. If the chairman is fitted for this position and there is a court of five, in o...
Why?
If it is merely to meet the danger of having to set up a second court, I think the wording ought to be very different from what it is. Sub-section (2) says:— “The chairman may direct that, for the co...
While I can see some force in that, the wording leaves it far too wide and puts too much power in the hands of the chairman.
Is the chairman going to be allowed to pick the court himself?
First he has to decide whether the court is to consist of three or five and he may, under the wording of this, have every court constituted of three members.
That may be so, but he is given power here to do that. Not only is he to determine that the court shall be three and not five, but he is also given the power to select the two out of the four for any ...
Committee on Finance. - Industrial Relations Bill, 1946—Committee (Resumed).
What about sub-section (4)? There is power there.
Amongst the parties representing those concerned.
The trouble is that the word “majority” is abused.
That does not meet the point.
I do not agree with the Minister. Let us take the eight unions mentioned by Deputy Norton. If five or even four were agreeable to registration, the court would have to take that as being “substantia...
I want to have this watertight if possible. If the court does not determine that five out of eight indicates “substantial agreement” how are they going to interpret the word “substantial”? It is not...
That is not what I am dealing with. Under the wording of the amendment the court must recognise five as giving a measure of “substantial agreement”.
I am arguing that I do not think the wording covers the point the Minister is trying to meet.
I put it to the Minister that anybody interpreting the amendment would not agree that five out of eight would represent “substantial agreement”. I do not think there is any doubt about that or that a...
Although it may cut across other agreements covering similar classes of workers.
I think it is almost inevitable that it will cut across.
I agree with Deputy Norton. This does not secure for the Minister what he wants to secure. As the section stands, it is completely unworkable, not only putting an obligation on the court that it can...
This is getting beyond me. We have jumped from Section 26, amendment No. 47, to Section 30, amendment No. 70.
I know that. If it were not for my fears about the Minister's later amendment, amendment No. 70, I would find myself in agreement with what the Minister has said. So far as I understand the Minister...
I said, generally speaking, a strike which is precipitated, particularly if it is a strike in breach of an existing agreement by a section of workers in defiance of the national executive of that orga...
I am not at all arguing now on the merits of the amendment to Section 30. We will deal with that when we come to it.
I know that, but I want to make the position clear in relation to what we are discussing; that is, the agreement that has been registered and the penalties to be inflicted for a deliberate breach by o...
Deputy Norton's whole case, as I see it, is that if a union is prohibited from using its funds for financing a strike, it will accept, that no union would consider for a moment breaking an agreement w...
Which amendment is the Minister withdrawing?
I thought you were going to introduce a new amendment on the Report Stage.
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