Blaney, Neil T.C.Wednesday, 14 February 1962 |
Dáil Eireann Debate
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Private Members' Business. - Local Authorities (Works) Act: Motion (Resumed).
Listening to the various speakers who have contributed to this debate, and in particular the last two, one is struck by the complete absence of any balance in their approach to the matter of drainage ...
Perhaps Deputy Murphy did not say all he intended when he was on his feet. Much play has also been made about the allegedly laudable drainage work done under this Act and it is suggested that it help...
That is the whole point. It is all very well to spend somebody else's money; but even though, as is alleged here, valuable property is being washed away, we cannot see our way in our councils to util...
It is solvent now; it was burst then.
I am not trying to cod the House and the Deputy knows it. There was more mention of what was being done in 1956 and 1957. I have heard mention of what was spent and how much more we would have got a...
There is nobody who knows that better than Deputy O'Donnell.
As I was about to say, I do not propose to go over the sorry recital of the conditions existing in those sad days. They were only too well known to Deputy O'Donnell as Minister for Local Government. ...
Does Deputy O'Donnell now deny that the Road Fund, which was so badly needed and was still very short of what was needed, was raided to the tune of £500,000 by the Minister for Finance of those sad da...
Yes. I disapprove of the raiding of the Road Fund for any purpose whatsoever, by any Minister in any Government.
That is surely a project —£500,000 swept out of the Road Fund —and we had to put in £900,000 in order that we would not have to pay off thousands of workers who were being codded along in the belief t...
That is surely not a point of order.
Surely the Deputy realises that were it not for the fact that we gave so much to the Labour Party, there would be fewer Labour Deputies in this House today. In fact, the Labour Party would not be not...
We will cease roaming now and come back to the point. Some of the Opposition speakers had some strange things to say here to-night. I think it was Deputy Blowick again who said it would take either 1...
I should like to recall to Deputy Blowick's memory the fact that when the Act was put on the Statute Book by the present Minister for Agriculture—he was then Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister fo...
The Parliamentary Secretary said in 1944 that it would take five years to build up the staff and technical know-how. Pressed as to how long it would take to complete the entire arterial drainage prog...
Before the Deputy goes on record misrepresenting what I said I would like him to quote exactly what I did say.
I most certainly did not. What I did say was that by the end of fifteen years the last of these schemes would have been entered upon.
Has the Deputy any objection to that?
Surveys have been carried out in quite a number of cases.
One scheme is up for contract and one is about to go out to contract.
He never said that.
Who said that?
Who said it?
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