Haughey, Charles J.Tuesday, 20 December 1966 |
Seanad Eireann Debate
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Garda Síochána Pensions Order, 1966: Motion.
In regard to the motion moved by Senator Browne the memorandum, which has been circulated to Members of the House with the Order, explains the effects of its provisions. As Senators will observe from ...
Appropriation Bill, 1966 ( Certified Money Bill ): Second Stage (Resumed) and Subsequent Stages.
He gets goods and services for the £350.
Would the Senator give every tourist £350 to come here and spend it here?
Senator Stanford should keep to the classics.
Cromwell.
Forty-eight times. No Minister ever met unions as often as I have met the NFA.
I was not prepared to be dictated to.
Is the Senator in favour of indirect taxation?
You might yet.
Not the Labour Party.
Senator Dooge has not intervened now.
You interrupted Senator McGlinchey when he made a similar sort of remark.
The Senator has not disturbed me.
Did we not subsidise the export of fat cattle?
They went up exactly £5 a head the week the subsidy was introduced.
The Senator asked me about the Dublin mart.
It does, and we always said it would rise in December. That is why I told the people to hold on to their cattle, in spite of Fine Gael criticism.
That is not so; it would have to correspond to the exact qualifications of the British guaranteed payments standards. The standard was agreed between our inspectors and the United Kingdom inspectors.
No, it has to come up to minimum standards of the UK scheme.
No, it was paid only on prime beef of top quality conforming with the British guaranteed payments standards.
On the hoof?
They are usually kept for two months. They do not qualify for the guaranteed payments unless they are kept for three months as it used to be, but now for two months.
The breeders were offered facilities to import what they wanted to import.
That is a very high standard now. Fine Gael think their attitude should be to personally attack everybody in the Government.
The Senator could not even stay in the Seanad.
It must take a bit from what you want to lecture the rest of us about.
They never learn.
Those are the sort of people we have in Opposition.
Who forced a judge to resign so that somebody else could be appointed?
Appropriation Bill, 1966 (Certified Money Bill): Second Stage (Resumed).
Buoyancy.
And established by me.
He was a bit severe on the amateur operatic societies.
Actually, you empty it.
You are not doing too badly on the non-political basis.
You are codding us.
Excepting cost.
Yes, but we won.
It shows that you academics never will understand anything.
I feel a little guilty at taking up the time of the House at this late hour. For that reason, I may not deal as fully with the debate as I would have done if we were concluding at a more reasonable ti...
These are some of the discrepancies that appeared in his contribution. He asked some specific questions which I should like to deal with. The first was when he asked about the NIEC Report No. 11 in ...
I would hope so. In any economy, of course, the balance of payments position is a crucial factor. This is particularly important in our economy where such a high proportion of our national product is...
I did not interrupt Senator FitzGerald. When I mentioned this figure of £20 million as a deficit on our balance of payments situation, I should have said it looks like the deficit we will have for th...
I could not be certain.
I said that in the worst year up to now it was not far short of £16 million.
This year has not finished yet.
As Senators know, in the year 1965 the capital inflow was about £25 million which is considerably in excess of the £16 million which the Second Programme envisaged. I am not arguing the statistics of...
Maybe Senator FitzGerald is not guilty but we cannot so readily absolve all the members of his Party. I gathered from Senator FitzGerald's remarks that he was criticising us for not reflating as quic...
Promised, projected, or whatever word you want. We said that provided a moderate increase in incomes and comparative industrial peace could be expected, then we could expect an increase in GNP. As ...
I am coming to that. In the case of the Department of Agriculture, I want to accept full responsibility for what happened on that occasion. I decided that it was necessary, for the record, that the ...
I fully accept that, yes. In fact, as a result of my experience on that particular occasion, as I say, I would be very reluctant to have a repeat of that experience and because, again, as I say, it i...
I suggest to them that they are doing themselves no good at all by this sort of carry-on. They would be far better to get their feet back on the ground, to send all these alleged experts that have com...
Have nothing to do with them. Get your feet back on the ground. Become a really good constructive Opposition and listen to the ordinary men and women in your Party because you have ordinary men and ...
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