Baxter, Patrick FrancisWednesday, 2 July 1941 |
Seanad Éireann Debate
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Public Business. - Finance Bill, 1941 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage.
It is rather difficult to know, in view of that ruling, what one may say and what one may not.
The trouble is that if we knew how they were going to spend it we might not want them to raise it. The method of spending makes you wonder whether they are justified in the method of raising it. I ca...
I suppose it is reaped in a queer sort of way; the reapers are often not the sowers. The Taoiseach tells us that the main problems confronting us now, apart from the problem of defence, are the probl...
There was opposition to the growing of wheat before either Senator Hawkins or I was born. There was opposition on the part of the land itself because there are millions of acres which cannot grow whe...
I was going to say that the problem with which the Minister is confronted is the problem of finding taxation. He adverted to the fact that revenue is dropping and he was not very optimistic about the...
If I am not in order in stating that the taxable capacity of the inhabitants of the country would be considerably higher if a great many people who at present have no taxable capacity were put to work...
The first sod?
Is this happening in areas where there are men needed to cut turf or in the City of Dublin?
Somebody here has said that you had not much chance.
I said nothing of the kind.
I tell you there would not.
Unfortunately.
Will the Minister make his own speech? The Minister is merely misrepresenting Senator Baxter's speech.
Did the Minister ask any of the Fianna Fáil farmers?
How do you know he will go? You refused to go on another occasion.
Are we not fighting for our lives?
Just as vitally though.
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