I was going to ask a question with regard to the taking of the business for to-day. Item 7 in the Orders of the Day has been postponed from two previous sittings. I do not know whether it is to be an agreed convention that supplementary estimates or estimates are to be taken at the end of the Orders of the Day. I see no reason, seeing that they are the most important business that the Dáil can undertake, and seeing further that they have already been postponed from two previous sittings, why Order 7 in the Orders of the Day for this sitting has not become Order No. 1. I would like to ask why the Minister for Home Affairs, who has charge of the business for to-day, could not see whether it would be possible to take Order No. 7 to-day, or whether it is intended to postpone it?
ORDER OF BUSINESS.
Mr. O'HIGGINS
The item which appears as No. 7 in the Orders of the Day has been postponed because of the absence of the President through illness. It is proposed to postpone it to-day also.
I would like to ask, when it is taken later on, when it suits the President, whether the item would not come on earlier in the Orders of the Day.
Mr. O'HIGGINS
The Deputy's wishes in the matter will be remembered.
I am very much obliged. I expected that.