Fitzgerald, GarrettThursday, 4 May 1972 |
Dáil Eireann Debate
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Immature Spirits (Restriction) Bill, 1972: Second Stage.
We accept that this Bill is in fulfilment of obligations under the Anglo-Irish Free Trade Area Agreement. One hopes a similar spirit of co-operation is to be found on the other side of the Irish Sea....
Have a go.
The purpose of the Bill is to enable Britain to drown us in vodka.
Hear, hear.
On vodka?
That was not the point I raised.
And particularly the question of public contracts in Northern Ireland discriminating against the Republic.
There are two points which I wish to mention. The Parliamentary Secretary did not tell us what the reference on 22.08 and 22.09 is. I would like to come back also on the question of the Revenue Comm...
Under what Act have they that power? Suppose the Bill was defeated, what would happen then?
Under what legislation have they power to waive the law?
We thought they were independent until March, 1970.
Yes, if the Parliamentary Secretary is prepared to take amendments.
I want to put down an amendment, but I am quite willing to raise it ad hoc now. It is in relation to the question of the UK——
I am willing to facilitate the Government if there is agreement to discuss my amendment.
I would like to propose an amendment.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Markpress Agency.
Will the Parliamentary Secretary have regard to the general concern that the public relations of this country should be in the hands of a foreign agency, one associated with having oversold in another...
Indeed, yes.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Social Insurance Contributions.
Surely the Minister is capable of making a simple estimate of the amount of the increase in the contribution. It is just a job that could be done on the back of an envelope. An estimate could be giv...
It is a possible reasons, but even for this Government it is hardly a credible one.
A non-answer, as usual.
What are we paying for?
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - ESB Loan.
Could the Minister say how he reconciles the statement he has made with the fact that in the past year the private sector have reduced their borrowing from the Associated Banks and the Government have...
My point is that the Central Bank report and other statements, including the Minister's, have made it clear that the Associated Banks faced a situation during the past year in which the demands for pr...
Largely irrelevant.
What was the date?
The credit year ended in mid-April.
We cannot chop down the years like that.
I am talking about the credit year ended in mid-April.
What is interbank rate?
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Civil Servants Political Rights.
The rest of us.
Why not?
Except in the case of a number of people in the higher grades of the Civil Service who are concerned with policy. We are talking about the great bulk of the 15,000 who are deprived of their rights.
All of them should have some of the rights they are deprived of, and the great majority should have all of the rights they are deprived of.
Would the Minister not agree that this important political matter should not be decided solely by the process of conciliation and arbitration but that it should be discussed in this House before a dec...
Surely at some stage the Minister has to say “yes” or “no”. He is responsible in this House for saying “yes” or “no”. Could we not debate whether he should say “yes” or “no” in a matter of political ...
After the Minister has decided in his usual arrogant manner.
After consultation.
Yes. That is what Parliament is for.
Not every decision.
The Minister should try not to treat the House with contempt.
Is to be a rubber stamp.
After the damage is done.
When we do we will not adopt the Minister's arrogant attitude.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - EEC Farm Modernisation Directive.
asked the Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries (a) whether the EEC farm modernisation directive of 24th March makes provision for 65 per cent community assistance in backward regions as stated in th...
I am sorry I missed part of the Minister's reply, but it is important that this point be clarified. My understanding is that, although the statement issued in the communiqué in the Council of Minister...
Will the Minister agree with me that, in fact, it will apply to any farmer submitting a modernisation plan whose income is at present below that of the average non-agricultural worker in the area in w...
Does the Minister also agree that farms which do not fall within the scheme can still get State aid with interest rates subsidised down to 5 per cent, even if they do not come within the category elig...
From our Government in this country.
I am not too sure, in those cases, with assistance from the Community Fund but our Government are entitled to give such aid to any farm under the directive rule.
I should like to ask the Minister with regard to B, whether he has clarified this point about the administration of the proposed scheme, whether assistance for this comes from the fund or not. My own...
Does the Minister agree that there is great merit in its being flexible and that this country can produce its own scheme in the general framework of financial assistance from the Community?
Yes, I heard that. Question No. 36 postponed.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Forcible Entry Legislation.
Could the Minister say what the force of that objection is, bearing in mind that we get rather heterogeneous Bills before us, including aesthetics?
It was not that it would be untidy?
What binding force would that have?
Would the Minister agree that he did not give advice that he could not do it—that it is a matter of aesthetic judgment rather than a binding force?
That is better. It took a bit to get that.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Firearms Statistics.
Could the Minister say whether the report that it was stolen was previous or subsequent to the robbery?
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Air Corps Resignation.
We thought the Parliamentary Secretary's reference to the French and Dutch Armies suggested he was.
It does not suggest much knowledge, I admit.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Votes at 18.
Surely it must be this term when the Government envisage the referendum in September?
September?
How can the referendum take place in September if we do not have legislation until September?
But somebody did say September when this thing was first discussed.
Could I press the Parliamentary Secretary on this because the whole point of the Government announcement of a September referendum was presumably that the collection of names for the register which ta...
That can be done even if the legislation is not enacted until after the names are collected?
Everything possible is not good enough.
When?
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Housing of Itinerant Families.
Is the Parliamentary Secretary aware that the provision is totally inadequate in Dublin city, that there are many itinerants who cannot find accommodation in serviced sites, that the corporation are p...
Is the Parliamentary Secretary aware that there is not any effort being made and that the corporation are evicting people from sites or seeking to do so by legal process——
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