Sweetman, GerardThursday, 19 November 1959 |
Dáil Éireann Debate
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Public Business. - Electoral (Amendment) Bill, 1959—Fifth Stage.
Four plus one out of seven is better than four out of six.
There is another chicken the Government must look after and that is the reason for it.
The people did not agree with him on the Referendum.
Yes, that is the whole point.
The Government did their utmost to do that in the Referendum.
How can a map be reported in the Official Report?
Clever.
Public Business. - Staff of the Houses of the Oireachtas Bill, 1959—Report Stage.
I agree that the redrafting does cover the situation. The previous draft, shall we say, threw some doubt on the matter. I am not interested so much in the power of suspension per se. What I am inter...
This is one method of showing the way we want the wind to blow.
I am totally dissatisfied with this amendment. I cannot accept what the Minister has said, namely, that this amendment gives the same privileges, if one may use that word, to the people that are nam...
I must confess the Minister and I differ categorically on the principle involved in subsection (1) of Section 26. The principle there is not, in my view, what the Minister says it is—bringing a perso...
The Minister mentioned ushers. I did not intend to mention any particular class but, as the Minister has mentioned ushers, I shall try to compare them with messengers. In latter years they have been ...
No.
The six years is what is involved. I do not want to go into the argument of how much unestablished service is pensionable. I have deliberately avoided that line. As far as I can see, it would run fr...
In fact, if the Minister looks, he will find that one person who came here in 1923 will retire with only 29 years' pensionable service and that the addition of the six years would still leave him with...
Is it not a pity, to put it at its most courteous, that we should look at it in a different way when such a very small number are involved? The Minister is good enough to concede my point of view as ...
There is no urgency in this Bill. We shall give the Minister all stages next Wednesday, if he likes. Would the Minister pass the amendment on recommittal today and take the Report and Final Stages n...
I shall undertake that our people in the Seanad will give the Minister every facility. If the Bill has to come back here I shall also undertake to give him every facility here.
May I suggest that the Minister withdraws the amendment and considers it again between now and Wednesday? If he cannot meet us, I am sure he will be able to——
I was trying to avoid getting the Minister into that situation. Amendment put. The Committee divided: Tá, 59; Níl, 35. Tá
Next Wednesday. The Minister is going to get a soft heart between now and Wednesday.
Because that does not give the Minister enough time to soften his heart.
The amendment just passed was the recommittal. We have not had the Report Stage yet on this amendment. This amendment was recommitted. Is that not so? The amendment was passed just now by the divi...
No, sir. The division has been announced.
When the division is announced, it has to be taken on Report Stage.
I still want some enlightenment. The amendment was recommitted and the division was on recommittal.
Once you have had recommittal do you not have to have that recommittal reported?
Are you ruling that when you have a Committee Stage you have no further Report Stage?
That is what I am asking, but the Chair has just said it was the Fifth Stage now. If it is the Report Stage the Minister is asking for now, I am suggesting the Report Stage be put back to next Wednes...
In Committee.
When is it proposed to take the Fifth Stage?
Not in view of this.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Merchandise Licences.
There is no question there.
“Is the Minister aware?”
Does the Taoiseach think it is right that these licences should be given to Fianna Fáil members?
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Military Service Pensions Increases.
“Is the Minister aware—?”
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Delivery of Telephone Directory.
asked the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs if he will state for each of the years 1954 to 1959 the date on which delivery to subscribers of the new telephone directory (a) commenced and (b) was compl...
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Omissions from Telephone Directory.
Does the Minister in such cases give free postage facilities to the persons concerned to enable them to notify their normal clients who would be ringing?
Would the Minister agree that it would be a reasonable facility to give?
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