OFarrell, John ThomasThursday, 10 December 1925 |
Seanad Éireann Debate
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SENATOR O'FARRELL'S MOTION—MINISTER'S STATEMENT.
When will the Minister be able to make a statement?
I do not suppose that a day or two will make much difference, unless the Minister has something to give us or something to propose that would solve this problem. In that event I would be prepared to c...
THE SHANNON ELECTRIFICATION SCHEME.
I beg to move:— That the Seanad regrets the unhappy auspices under which the Shannon Electrification Scheme has been launched, and hereby records its considered opinion that the success of the underta...
I take it Senator the Earl of Mayo is seconding the motion.
On a point of explanation, I never referred to that statement. Evidently the Senator has not been reading the papers at all recently. It is the conduct of the Minister since that statement was made ...
I am not complaining of that particular statement.
A grand assumption of ignorance.
Cheap talk.
I never thought you would vote for it.
No.
On a point of explanation, and to relieve the Senator's mind, what I did mean and say was that if a country is not capable of paying workers sufficient to supply them with the ordinary necessaries of ...
Brutalised life!—
Does the Senator favour industrial as against political action?
It is a good hint at any rate.
No, no.
That is our whole case.
SHANNON ELECTRIFICATION SCHEME. - DEBATE RESUMED.
You would have no country at all but for Labour. Make no mistake about that. You could not fight against the Black-and-Tans were it not for Labour.
They are not navvies.
That is admitted; but that is for farm labourers and not for an engineering job.
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