Fitzgerald, EugeneWednesday, 4 November 1981 |
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Finance (No. 2) Bill, 1981: Second Stage (Resumed).
Did I hear the Minister say that he was in Fine Gael before?
The Minister's memory is at fault.
I quoted from the Central Bank reports on a number of occasions.
I said the Minister's memory was faulty.
I will get an opportunity of telling the true story.
Nobody takes the Minister seriously anymore.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Departmental Appointments.
asked the Minister for Health the number of non-established civil servants appointed in her Department since 30 June 1981; and if she will give their names, terms of appointment, duties and rate of re...
Finance (No. 2) Bill, 1981: Second Stage (Resumed).
The Minister should concentrate on his teaching problems.
On a point of order, it is most discourteous to the Opposition that neither the Minister for Finance nor his Minister of State is in the House listening to the concluding speech from the Fianna Fáil ...
I am entitled to put the protest on the record of the House as a further indication of what we have seen this week of the shabby way——
It was normal courtesy in the past for a Minister for Finance to be in the House.
With an odd run to Limerick, too.
Deputy Kemmy is in the bed too.
They had not the price of the house.
To a press conference.
It was three minutes.
Fast man.
Is Deputy Kemmy getting Deputy L'Estrange down?
Hear, hear.
Deputy L'Estrange is sticking to his guns today. Have the Government their Independents whipped?
In case the Minister is not aware the Finance Bill implements the savings budget proposals of July.
Even Deputy Richie Ryan is getting worried about it.
What about the tax package?
And they also have Deputy Kemmy.
The Minister knows.
The Minister would not know that but for our census.
The Minister is very much on the British lines and they do not appear to have worked.
Young people are already talking about the Coalition.
He went into more than that.
The Minister is making political points.
“Act” is the appropriate word.
What else was it?
Winning popularity for the future, not for today.
It is an integral part of the propaganda exercise, as the Minister well knows.
That is absolutely right.
Deputy Reynolds also reminded the Minister about——
The Minister could not be right because he was missing from the House for almost 25 per cent of Deputy Reynolds' speech.
It is very hard to follow that line of argument.
The budget was a central plank of the exercise.
Motion for Late Sitting.
First of all, may I ask has the motion been agreed by the Whips?
Does the Minister mean, by what he has moved in the House, that Private Members' Time will continue beyond 8.30 p.m. this evening?
I am not saying at this stage I am objecting to that but it is the first we have heard of it. I would expect the Opposition to be informed before any such motion is moved in the House. Certainly con...
I might make the point that, again, I would have expected some prior notice of such a motion being moved. It seems a strange move by the Government that such a motion should be moved within a few min...
With no disrespect to the mover of the motion, I just was not aware of it; and, as somebody who has been sitting in the House for the last one and three quarter hours or so, I would not be likely to b...
I have asked you by what procedure Deputy Barry asked for your permission. I was sitting in the House. Deputy Barry came into the House. The Minister for Finance was concluding the debate on the Fi...
Of course there would.
It is after 6.30 p.m. (Interruptions.)
Exactly.
Private Members' Business. - School Enrolment Age: Motion (Resumed).
That is true.
Nobody believes the Deputy.
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