O'Leary, JohnThursday, 20 May 1948 |
Dáil Éireann Debate
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Having listened to the debate on the Budget for the past few weeks and having observed the various holes picked in it by the members of the Opposition, I find it very difficult to understand the attit...
We are not racketeers at all. I believe there are some honest Irishmen in this Government. The Budget has been received in my constituency very well. I never heard anyone condemning it. With the e...
Deputy MacEntee, Deputy Lemass, and other speakers on that side were a hell of a long way away from the Budget too. They did not come near the Budget at all. They can only see their own point of vi...
It is not like the local committees where the Press have to drop their pencils when the members say “this is in committee” and it is a good thing that in Dáil Éireann you can show them in ten years' t...
These men had to provide the first Budget that was ever made in this State and I am sure that their experience is as good as that of the people who are now over in America talking about Partition. Th...
It is the first time it was admitted.
Fianna Fáil slipped over there.
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