I move:—
"That it be an Instruction to the Committee on the Finance Bill, 1924, that they have power to make provision therein pursuant to the said Supplementary Financial Resolutions."
COMMITTEE ON FINANCE. - THE DAIL RESUMES.
On a point of order, what is meant by "the said Supplementary Financial Resolutions"?
I will omit the word "said."
Resolution, as amended, put and agreed to.
Does this include the Resolution that was under discussion on the last day?
Yes, it includes the three Supplementary Resolutions, but they will be reported later, so that the Deputy will have his opportunity of speaking on the report of them.
Yes, but these different stages follow one another so rapidly that one has scarcely time to absorb the meaning of them. The Resolution the Minister for Finance has just proposed is a most involved one, and would require a certain amount of consideration. Before Deputies have time to give them that consideration, different stages have been rushed through, and it is then too late.
Is the Deputy speaking on Item No. 3, or objecting to taking Item No. 4?
What happens is this. I see now that the Minister has just proposed a resolution, and the next item on the agenda is that the resolution be embodied in the Finance Bill.
No, that is not the position. The Deputy thinks that we are going much more rapidly than we really are. The effect of the motion is that when we come to the Committee Stage of the Finance Bill, the motion proposed in Committee to-day and the motions proposed on Friday may be proposed to be added to the Bill. That is all. It does not mean that they are automatically added to the Bill. The Committee has power to consider them, with consequent powers to the Deputy to make speeches on them.
It also gives a certain amount of approval to them before one has time to consider the whole question, because, with great respect, resolutions of the character down here require a certain amount of consideration and we have to give formal approval to them before we have an opportunity of considering them. That is, in recommending it to the Committee Stage of the Finance Bill, it is a formal approval.
We really only give the Committee power to consider these amendments to the Bill.
Yes, but it is a resolution adopted by the Dáil.
I would suggest that this particular Resolution does not give so much approval as the Resolutions which have already been passed on the matters they deal with.