McQuillan, JohnWednesday, 23 October 1963 |
Dáil Eireann Debate
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Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Military Non-Commitment.
and Mr. McQuillan asked the Taoiseach whether any undertaking was asked for or given during or since the visit of President Kennedy, including the period of the Taoiseach's visit to the United States,...
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Cost of Living Increase.
and Mr. McQuillan asked the Taoiseach the estimated sum which would be required by a man with four children earning £10 a week to compensate for the increase in the cost of living since the eighth rou...
Is the Taoiseach aware that the commodities to which he has referred, commodities which must be purchased by the breadwinner, have gone up in price since last August and that practically all manufactu...
It is not, Sir.
Is the Taoiseach aware that the price of flour has gone up already?
One of these factors is the greed of manufacturers, wholesalers and business people generally who want to get in at the beginning.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Unemployment Figures.
and Mr. McQuillan asked the Taoiseach whether, with reference to the fact that the Central Statistics Office have issued revised unemployment figures, he sought an explanation for it; and what action ...
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - National Industrial Economic Council.
and Mr. McQuillan asked the Minister for Finance why there is no agricultural representation on the National Industrial Economic Council.
Does the Minister not think it a bit of a joke that people like members of the Motor Traders Association should be put on a National Industrial Development Council and representatives of a major indus...
Surely the Minister must realise that some of the people whose photographs have appeared in the newspapers as being members of this Council have in the past been responsible for holding back industria...
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Cost of Living Increase.
and Mr. McQuillan asked the Minister for Finance the estimated increase in the cost of living figure likely to follow the imposition of the turnover tax.
Is the Minister suggesting that a matter of serious importance to the consumer public is to be answered by reference back to a reply given last May? Is the Minister aware of the increase in the cost ...
Is the Minister aware of the fact that goods in the shops at present have gone up in price by 2½ per cent and more in many instances, before the application of the turnover tax at all, or is the Minis...
The Minister will learn it from the country. It is to be hoped that the statistics will be as accurate as your insurance company's.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Wage and Salary Increases.
and Mr. McQuillan asked the Minister for Finance whether, in the light of the increases which have taken place and which will take place as a result of the turnover tax, the Government will arrange f...
and Mr. McQuillan asked the Minister for Finance if he will indicate whether the policy on Incomes and Output set out in the Government White Paper is no longer binding on any wage and salary negotiat...
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Nuclear Weapons on Irish Territory.
and Mr. McQuillan asked the Minister for External Affairs whether, in view of his speech at UNO condemning the spread of nuclear weapons, the Government have reconsidered their refusal to accede to U ...
Is it not a fact that early in 1962 the Acting Secretary General wrote to the Irish Government inviting the Irish Government to pledge themselves not to receive nuclear weapons——
——in other words, not to allow them here?
Is it not a fact that the Minister for External Affairs said here in the Dáil the Government would not give the pledge that was asked of them by the Acting Secretary-General, that the Government's ans...
The Taoiseach's statement in this regard is just as accurate as his statement in connection with NATO.
That is exactly what we are quoting.
The Taoiseach went over to America and made a lot of nonsensical speeches about this issue while the Government here refuse to give a guarantee to the United Nations on this matter. The Taoiseach ins...
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Maintenance of Grand Canal
and Mr. McQuillan asked the Minister for Transport and Power whether his attention has been drawn to a proposal to fill in the Grand Canal through Dublin; if he has received any proposals in the matte...
Will the Minister look sympathetically on any such proposal?
In view of the public uneasiness and general disquiet over this matter, will the Minister now put an end to all rumours by saying that if such a proposal is made, he will refuse to entertain it for fi...
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Control of Prices.
and Mr. McQuillan asked the Minister for Industry and Commerce whether, in the light of the increases which have taken place and which will take place as a result of the turnover tax, the Government w...
National Loan, 1963. - Irish Estates Limited — Motion.
Do we take it that the report in question will be open for discussion in the House?
Private Members' Business. - Purchase of Land by Aliens: Motion.
Will the Minister quote a similar section in the French law or German law?
This is the only country that has this provision.
You should.
And said nothing.
The Minister thumped his chest and said that for the first time in history a statutory register is now available so that the House and the country may know how much land is in the hands of aliens and...
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