Colley, GeorgeWednesday, 29 November 1978 |
Dáil Eireann Debate
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Order of Business.
What is the Deputy talking about? Have we not had a debate?
As the Deputy knows, it does not have to be finished. There are many precedents for this. Deputies
Supplementary Estimates, 1978: Leave to Introduce.
I move: That leave be given by the Dáil to introduce the following Supplemen-tary Estimates for the service of the year ending on the 31st day of December 1978, namely:— Votes Nos.:— 1 (President's Es...
I cannot say off-hand but I am not sure why the Deputy would not consider it more appropriate to raise this question on the various Estimates.
The Deputy may take it that any procedure in regard to the expenditure of money will follow the rules and precedents in this regard.
I do not propose at this stage to spell them out for the Deputy.
The Deputy is aware that the matter is a little more complex than that.
I am simply moving that leave be granted to introduce the Supplementary Estimates. I am not introducing the Supplementary Estimates.
If the Deputy has no wish to agree to leave being granted to introduce a Supplementary Estimate, he should say so.
I will not give any undertaking to do that. (Interruptions.)
May I point out that Fine Gael should know by now that if they disagree with a Supplementary Estimate on any basis, whether on the basis they are now alleging or otherwise, the course open to them is ...
That is correct.
Deputy FitzGerald is misrepresenting totally my position. What I said was that the ordinary practice—and this is the practice one would expect from any rational person—is that in debating any Suppleme...
Not at the stage of the question of leave to introduce being granted.
On a point of order—— (Interruptions.)
——I submit that it is my experience and the experience also, I suggest, of any other Deputy in the House, that the only question asked and normally permitted by the Chair in regard to the introduction...
It is proposed to circulate them by tomorrow morning and it is hoped to take them possibly next week.
Written Answers. - State Bodies Employment.
As far as Government Departments are concerned, the total number of employees aged 65 or over is approximately 1,380, of whom approximately 1,000 are employed in subordinate grades. It is not possible...
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