The next Order is: Estimates for Public Services. I understand there is some idea of postponing this item. Is that correct?
ARMY ESTIMATES.
Yes. It is Private Member's day after 7 o'clock, but I take it there is a conspiracy on the part of private Members not to raise any business at 7 o'clock. I take a hint from that that private Members want to retire, so I move the adjournment of the Dáil until to-morrow.
There is a point upon this. When are the Army Estimates postponed to?
Until to-morrow.
An intimation was conveyed to me that the Minister for Defence would like the Army Estimate to be the first Order to-morrow. The Order Paper is not made out in that way, but I do not know whether Deputies who desire to speak on the Army Estimates would agree to that. The business to-morrow besides the Estimates is the Committee Stage of the Land Law Commission Bill. Would it be possible to take the Army Estimates first?
I suggest that if it is the desire of the Minister for Defence that they should be taken first, and that it would be a matter of convenience for him, the Dáil would accept any such suggestion from him.
It is rather a matter, so far as we are concerned, for arrangement between Ministers. If the Land Law Commission Bill is not an urgent matter, in the mind of the Minister in charge of it, he can give way to the Minister for Defence.
Then, the Army Estimates will be taken first to-morrow.
When will the Intermediate Estimates be taken?
The Army Estimates will be taken to-morrow anyway.
Question: "That the Dáil do now adjourn until 3 o'clock p.m. to-morrow," put and agreed to.
The Dáil adjourned at 7.35 p.m.