Vol. 8 No. 20
If there be no objection I would ask that the next stages of the Bill be taken now. It is a pressing matter. The matter of Kehoe Barracks is pressing and so is Clonmel, and also the Gloucester Street matter, and I would ask the House to give me permission to move that the Bill be now received for final consideration.
Leave given.
I move: "That the Bill do now pass."
I hope that this will not happen again and that Bills will not be passed through the Dáil until we have had an opportunity of seeing, and considering the amendments, as Deputy Johnson has had apparently in connection with this Bill. I realise the urgency of the situation and I do not oppose the passage of the Bill, but I hope that this will not be taken as a precedent.
I should have apologised. I thought that there would have been an opportunity for putting the amendment in the hands of Deputies, but some members of our staff are away, and, in consequence, those who remained were not aware of the fact that every Deputy should have the amendments.
I am interested in the Gloucester Street proposal, and I am bound to say that I do not know how the thing stands. I am not, however, opposing the motion.
