On a matter of procedure, I desire to make a suggestion to the Minister for Local Government and to the President in regard to the Local Government Bill. We have had circulated twenty-one pages of Government amendments to this Bill, and most of them are, I think, substantial. I suggest to the Minister for his consideration that if these Government amendments were embodied in a revised Bill the Dáil would probably agree to give it a Second Reading, and then we might discuss the Bill as it is now intended to be submitted. I would urge that suggestion upon the Minister because the prospect of reading these amendments and of suggesting new amendments is unnecessarily severe. I think it would facilitate matters if a Bill, as is now suggested, were reprinted. The Dáil then, I think, would give it a First and Second Reading without any delay, and matters would be very much simpler than at present.
LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL.—DEPUTY'S SUGGESTION.
I will undertake to give the Dáil an answer on that point to-morrow.