I move "That the Dáil do now adjourn until Wednesday next at 3 o'clock." If the Dáil is agreeable, I would like then to take the Damage to Property Bill as it comes back from the Seanad.
FINANCIAL RESOLUTIONS—REPORTED. - ADJOURNMENT OF THE DAIL.
The Seanad amendments to the Damage to Property Bill are with the printers, and we hope to have them in the hands of the Deputies to-morrow night. That is an important question.
Will they be in time to-morrow night? I am speaking now, not in full possession of all the proposed amendments; but I think they are not very material. Some I do not agree with, but I am inclined to think, from what I have heard of them, the Dáil would accept them in the form that they came back, in order that we should get on. They are not very material, and they do not affect the main purpose or the principle of the Bill.
I would like some guidance on the procedure in the case of a Bill returned from the Seanad with alterations. Is it in order to propose amendments to the amendments?
Yes, it is in order to propose amendments to the amendments made by the Seanad.
The motion, I take it, would be that the Dáil agrees with the amendments proposed by the Seanad.
That is my present intention, without having looked into them very closely.
Would it be in order to move amendments to the Sections sought to be amended by the Seanad amendments?
No; not to amend the Sections amended by the Seanad, except in so far as the further amendments would be relevant to the amendments carried in, and sent down from, the Seanad.
What time would be allowed to send in amendments.
We would have to have the amendments by Monday, if they are to appear on the Order Paper at noon on Tuesday so that they could be circulated in some form to Deputies. The motion now is, that the Dáil do adjourn until Wednesday, but there is notice of a question to be raised by Deputy Gavan Duffy.
I regret that the matter of the raid upon my house which, to some, may wear a personal aspect, should be discussed this evening, after the grave matters which have been discussed so seriously by both sides, and I would prefer to raise it on the next occasion that the Dáil meets. It seems to me there is something incongruous in moving a matter of that kind after a matter of life and death has been discussed, and if I have the leave of the Dáil I will move it on the next occasion.
The Dáil adjourned at 6.25 until Wednesday next at 3 o'clock.