O'Hara, Thomas

Thursday, 5 March 1953

Dáil Éireann Debate
Vol. 136 No. 15

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Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Emigration from North Mayo.

asked the Taoiseach if he is aware that large numbers of boys and girls are continually leaving the Achill area, North Mayo, due to unemployment; and, if so, what steps he proposes to take to remedy t...More Button

asked the Taoiseach if he is aware that large numbers are obliged to emigrate from Ballycroy, North Mayo, due to the fact that no regular employment has been provided there; and, if so, what steps he ...More Button

Would the Parliamentary Secretary tell the House if it is proposed to give us any schemes in the North Mayo area—with particular reference to Achill and Ballycroy—that will help to absorb female labou...More Button

Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - County Mayo Turf-Cutting.

asked the Minister for Industry and Commerce if he will state when Bord na Móna propose to start turf-cutting operations at Cloonainra, Killasser, Swinford, County Mayo.More Button

Could the Minister state where it is proposed to sell the crop of turf produced last year?More Button

Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - County Mayo Flooding.

asked the Minister for Finance if he is aware that the people of several townlands in the Lacken, Ballina, area, have to wade through the tide, partly dressed, on their way to Mass in Lacken parish ch...More Button

Is the Parliamentary Secretary aware that during the by-election in North Mayo members of the Fianna Fáil Party went into the Lacken area and assured the people of Lacken that if they elected a certai...More Button

Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Land Acquisition.

asked the Minister for Lands if any steps have been taken towards acquiring the Fergus estate at Bofeenaun, Ballina, in view of the serious congestion that exists there.More Button

asked the Minister for Lands if he will state when it is proposed to acquire the Corcoran estate at Bofeenaun, Ballina, County Mayo, for the relief of local congestion.More Button

Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Repair of Mayo Pier.

asked the Minister for Agriculture if he is aware of the very serious damage caused by storm to Faulmore Pier, Blacksod, County Mayo, and that a large number of local fishermen have lost their means o...More Button

Could the Parliamentary Secretary indicate where there are landing facilities available in the area? It has been pointed out to me that Faulmore Pier is the only landing place in that particular area...More Button

Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Employment for Mayo Fishermen.

asked the Minister for Agriculture if he is aware that there is a fishing pier in a very good state of repair at Lacken, Ballina; and, if so, if he proposes to take steps to develop the sea-fishing i...More Button

Vote 48—Forestry (Resumed).

I do not wish to hold up the House very long on this Supplementary Estimate for the forestry section of the Department of Lands. I do want to say at the outset that I listened to Deputy McQuillan's s...More Button

I heard you misrepresent.More Button

If you are sorry for what you said that is another matter, but the Deputy did, within my hearing——More Button

I understood Deputy McQuillan to say that the Minister for Lands who is in charge of forestry should take steps to acquire compulsorily from small farmers in the West of Ireland, their land for forest...More Button

I accept that, but I want to say this that while I am a member of this House I will not stand for that class of thing. After all, the farmers in the West of Ireland are the people who were driven int...More Button

With respect, I submit I am drawing an analogy between the two Departments. I suggest that when the Minister of a particular Department can persuade the Minister for Finance to give increased grants ...More Button

I will pass on from that.More Button

Indeed, I am not getting lost.More Button

I would like to impress upon the Minister the importance of increasing substantially the amount of grant in that particular direction.More Button

With respect, Sir, we are voting a certain sum of money on the Supplementary Estimate.More Button

I consider that the previous Minister and the present Minister did their best in furthering this particular branch of the Department of Lands. In my view the task of a Minister for Lands is an onerou...More Button

Tourism has been referred to by Deputy Morrissey. At the present time colossal sums of public moneys are being devoted to schemes, perhaps some of them good schemes, to encourage tourists to come to ...More Button

I thought I might mention it in passing. With your permission, Sir, I suggest to the Minister that as far as it is possible——More Button

On the point raised by Deputy Collins, the reason why I mentioned it——More Button

As this matter has been dealt with at length by other Deputies, I will conclude by saying that I am glad to note that the lands of Triesta, Boughacloon, Ballina, North Mayo, have been acquired. It wa...More Button

If the Minister could speed up the work and get started in that area it would be appreciated by the people of North Mayo.More Button

Committee on Finance. - National Stud Bill, 1953—Money Resolution.

I have already made my views clear on this matter. Like Deputy Dunne, I feel that we must oppose this Bill.More Button

We must oppose the Money Resolution. It is sheer madness for us to expend such a sum of money on such a purpose at this juncture. I put down a question to-day to the Parliamentary Secretary to the M...More Button

I submit it is fantastic to spend this sum on the purchase of a racehorse while at the same time expecting human beings to wade kneedeep in water on their way to Mass. I think the principle underlyin...More Button

Committee on Finance. - National Stud Bill, 1953—Money Resolution (Resumed).

What about Eisenhower?More Button

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