Can the President tell us what will be the effect of losing this hour on the Committee Stage of this Bill? Will it mean that at the sitting to-morrow we will have to take up this Bill and is it going to have an effect on next week's business?
DAIL RESUMES.
Progress reported. Committee to sit again on Friday, October 12th.
We will have no business next week. The question is whether we could get through this stage of the Bill to-night and to-morrow. It was represented to me by a number of Deputies that they had engagements at 8 o'clock this evening, and some others that they had engagements at 8.30. I do not think it would be possible for us to finish the Committee Stage of this Bill to-day and to-morrow, so we will have to leave some of it over until we meet again. At any rate it is not intended to sit next week.
Does that mean that the Bill will be held over for a week or a fortnight?
The Committee Stage will not be resumed for a week or a fortnight after we adjourn this week. The Committee Stage might be resumed tomorrow when we have cleared off the two other Bills we have down. I am not sure whether Deputy Major Cooper asked me to take up the Governor-General's speech to-morrow.
I would as soon leave it over. There might be some difficulty in keeping a House if we had only the Governor-General's speech to-morrow.
I propose to resume the Committee Stage of this Bill to-morrow as soon as we have finished the other two Bills. I move that the Dáil do now adjourn until 12 o'clock to-morrow.
Question put and agreed to.
Dáil adjourned accordingly at 7.35 p.m.