Cuirim anois os bhúr gcóir go n-eireoghmíd as an Siosón Puiblí seo go dtí 3.30 p.m., is go mbeidh an Siosóin eile príomháideach.
I move that we adjourn now until 3.30 p.m., when we will have a Private Session of the Dáil.
Before this Public Session ends, as we have a new Ministry, I would like to say to the whole nation that if they give to us as the Government which they have established the same allegiance that they have given for the two and a half years that we have been in existence, there is no power on earth or in hell—because some of the powers of earth do seem like the powers of hell sometimes—that can drive out of Ireland the Government that the Irish people have established.
Give to those into whose hands you put the powers of Government from your hearts that allegiance that other Governments on earth try to secure by force, and that is a power, as I have said, that nothing can break down. This nation has men and women in it enough, one by one, to fill the places I hold and our Cabinet hold, and as one by one we are removed, so one by one they can step into our places; and the British Empire which tries force against us will be gone before the Republic is finished.
I should like, lest there might be any misunderstanding, to explain with reference to the new Loan, that what I wished to say was that the sum was so small that altogether both the 20,000,000 dollars we are going for in America and the £500,000 at home did not amount to a sum that two months' revenue would pay—two months of the revenue that is being exacted out of this country at present. Of course, the £500,000 is only three days' revenue.
