Ryan, RichieThursday, 30 April 1970 |
Dáil Eireann Debate
Page of 60
|
Committee on Finance. - Resolution No. 3: General (Resumed).
The most that can be said of Deputy Moore's speech is that he helped to add to the confusion in economic and political thought in the country at present which appears to be the preoccupation of very m...
One wondered where the other 139 members were.
Deputy Desmond tells me that they were watching the World Cup match. That had not occurred to me. I thought they were supposed to be listening to another expert addressing them on the report of the ...
——because, as things are now developing, the housewife will soon need a wheelbarrow to wheel to the supermarket to hold all the pound notes necessary to make even the smallest purchases. This is no w...
——some few days before the commencement of this critical debate on the Budget. I am, indeed, very pleased to learn that an economic expert like Deputy Dr. O'Donovan—I assume he is including himself ...
This morning we received another document containing 150 pages dealing with the prospects for agriculture in the European Economic Community. We did not, unfortunately, receive “Old Moore's Almanac.”...
A 27-man team that comes out with a statement like that in 1970 is really doing something worthless. Is it not time that people were allowed to think for themselves instead of having to sit down, out...
I have not yet gone west.
Am I to understand from Deputy O'Donovan that prices in New York are comparable to our own?
The further east you go the greater chance there is of arriving in the west some time.
The situation now is that even in the United States of America, which is noted for its high cost of living, many articles are cheaper than they are in Ireland. To me these things speak far more effec...
If this be so and even if this occurs——
——within the next one to four years there is an additional reason to take the pressure off prices because entry to the EEC will mean a direct and unavoidable increase in the cost of foodstuffs—bread, ...
If we table an amendment to the Finance Bill to incorporate suggestions, we will be ruled out of order. I do not think most Deputies understand that. If Deputies sitting behind the Minister tried to...
To my mind, it is totally unfair and dishonest of members of the Fianna Fáil Party to make this type of attack——
We can get ourselves put on NIEC, QRST, XYZ, or ABCD & E and we can publish, at enormous expense, document after document after document and deliver them to the Minister for Finance in February or Mar...
We are told this Budget is designed to help the family man. That claim is not true. This Budget means that nearly 250,000 families will pay more tax and will not get benefit commensurate with the add...
That is the situation then—tax collectors from the cradle to the grave. The stonemason who erects the tombstone is not exempt. Of this I am certain. I would have hoped that this Budget speech, which...
We were told they had gone to London. I know many people who would like an odd trip to London at the taxpayers' expense to be wined and dined at St. James's Palace or elsewhere. That is not making ef...
Is it not high time we said to Britain: “All right, we can both play at this game. No British goods will be allowed into Ireland unless the British exporter deposits the money in Irish banks in Londo...
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Czechoslovak Nationals in Ireland.
asked the Minister for Justice the number of nationals from Czechoslovakia at present in this State; the length and purpose of their stay; and whether permission to remain in Ireland is subject to non...
Would the Minister agree that where two persons purporting to be trade representatives endeavoured to interfere with the activities of an Irish-Czechoslovakian society the members of which are concern...
Accepting that it is a sensitive matter, would the Minister not consider that on that account it is all the more undesirable that any persons should be allowed to act in a way prejudicial to the inter...
Which we should not permit to be endangered by undesirable activities of aliens.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Trade Mission.
asked the Minister for External Affairs whether there are any trade missions in Ireland other than those attached to diplomatic missions here; and, if so, if he will give details
If they have no official status, can the Minister say what their particular status is and whether they are regarded as negotiating on behalf of the Governments of the countries in question? If they a...
Does the Minister accept that those persons are representatives of the Governments in question, because neither Poland nor Czechoslovakia permit private interests to export from their countries? Thei...
I wish to ask one final question. If those people were recognised here, with diplomatic or consular status, and if they were engaged in political activities, would they then be deemed by the Minister...
Would the Minister not agree that there is an absolute right to withdraw permits? One does not need statutory reasons. It is purely licence.
asked the Minister for External Affairs whether he has received any complaints regarding certain activities of a trade mission to Ireland (name supplied); and, if so, what action he has taken in the m...
Is the Minister not aware that recently a written complaint went to his Department in relation to the same trade mission, that is, the Czechoslovakian trade mission?
Is the Minister aware that the Irish-Czechoslovakian Society have been in existence for several years and that since the Russian-organised downfall of the Dubcek régime the members of the society foun...
I suggest it is clear already.
They should have no political business with the country.
That is one of their purposes. Their other activity is to prejudice the interests of Czechoslovakians living here.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Trade with Czechoslovakia.
asked the Minister for Industry and Commerce Ireland's exports to and imports from Czechoslovakia in each of the last five years; and what steps are being taken to improve the balance of trade with th...
Would the Minister not consider using the powers available to him to limit imports from Czechoslovakia to a scale which would be on the same level as our exports to that country, first, because econom...
Would the Minister not agree that some of the articles imported from Czechoslovakia could not, by any stretch of the imagination, be classified as essential and would he not further agree that there w...
The Minister will watch the situation carefully?
I shall keep after the Minister.
| Last Updated: 15/09/2010 07:46:25 |
Page of 60
|