Dáil Éireann debate -
Wednesday, 22 Oct 1924

Vol. 9 No. 1

COMMITTEE ON FINANCE. - LOCAL GOVERNMENT BILL—MONEY RESOLUTION.

MINISTER for FINANCE (Mr. Blythe)

I beg to move:—

Go bhfuil sé oiriúnach a údarú go n-íocfar amach as airgead a sholáth- róidh an tOireachtas aon chostaisí fé n-a raghfar maidir le liúntaisí agus luach saothair a bheidh iníochta le baill de Chomhairlí agus de Choistí Comhairlitheacha a bunófar fé aon Acht a rithfar sa tSiosón so chun an dlí a bhaineas le Rialtas Aitiúil i Saorstát Eireann do leasú.

That it is expedient to authorise the payment out of moneys to be pro- vided by the Oireachtas of any ex- penses incurred in connection with allowances and remuneration pay- able to members of Consultative Councils and Committees established under any Act of the present Session to amend the law relating to Local Government in Saorstát Eireann.

The amount of money involved is very small. It is not anticipated that the expenses in connection with the Committees that may be set up by the Minister for Local Government and Public Health shall, for some years at any rate, exceed £500 or so per annum.

Mr. JOHNSON

May I suggest that this resolution is not urgent until we have the new Bill, as I hope it will be a new Bill, before us. I suggest that we need not pass this motion until that question is disposed of.

Mr. BLYTHE

I think it is immaterial. I do not propose to do anything to-day that would make another or different financial resolution necessary.

Mr. JOHNSON

But we may want to discuss this resolution or to discuss the question of consultative councils and their appointment, and so on, on the resolution. If we knew what the Bill proposes to do, we might avoid that discussion.

Mr. BLYTHE

It seems to me to be quite immaterial. We will have this again. If Deputies would prefer to have it again rather than deal with it now, I do not care.

Mr. JOHNSON

I want to save the Minister time. I did not want to raise a discussion on this motion dealing with the whole question of Consultative Councils and their payment if when we come to see the revised Bill no provision is made for Consultative Councils.

Mr. BLYTHE

No change will be made in that respect, so that the Deputy can deal with it now.

Mr. JOHNSON

If the Minister wants to waste the time of the Dáil, I am prepared to help him.

Mr. BLYTHE

I do not. Perhaps Deputy Johnson does.

Mr. DARRELL FIGGIS

In any case, sir, is it not a good rule that was observed in the past—that a financial resolution was taken immediately before going into Committee on the particular Bill with which the financial resolution deals, in order that there may be some sequence in the discussions?

Motion put and declared carried.