Before we proceed to business, it is my melancholy duty to ask the Dáil to express its sympathy with the family of the late Deputy Derham. Only last week he was with us, and now he is no more. Deputy Derham has been associated with public life for a great number of years. He entered the national movement at a meeting which was addressed by the O'Rahilly, Dr. Hayes, and the late Thomas Ashe in Balbriggan. During the struggle for independence of this country his family and himself have contributed their share of suffering and privation, and I think it is due to his memory and, I believe I am expressing the opinions of every Deputy here when I say that we should join in sending his family a tribute of respect in their great grief.
All the Deputies present then rose in their places.