I propose to take the items as they appear on the Order Paper with the exception of No. 4. The Minister for Industry and Commerce will ask permission to withdraw that.
INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL PROPERTY (PROTECTION) BILL, 1925.
I suppose it would be better then if we took No. 4 first.
A report has been presented to both Houses with reference to the Industrial and Commercial Property (Protection) Bill, 1925. The next order would be to have this referred to a Committee of the Dáil in the usual way. Deputies who have got this Report if they take the trouble to look through it will notice that the Bill has been changed considerably. There is a large number of amendments which can be included in three or four important categories. The general effect of the Report is to change the Bill to such an extent that I think it would be much more desirable to have the present Bill withdrawn rather than to have it considered side by side with all these numerous amendments, and have a new Bill introduced which will embody possibly not all of the Committee's recommendations but certainly 95 per cent. of them. If I am allowed I will put down a motion later on to withdraw the present Bill and ask leave to introduce the same Bill with the date altered to 1926, and leave to introduce would have to be given on this understanding, that it would not be possible to have a new Bill in the hands of Deputies until some time about the end of September or October. We will have to suit the Parliamentary draftsman's convenience in that. I am proposing, therefore, to put down a motion to withdraw the present Bill, and to ask leave to introduce the Industrial and Commercial Property (Protection) Bill, 1926, as a new one.
We can make an order for the withdrawal of this Bill, and the Minister could introduce a new Bill at his convenience.
I would rather have leave to introduce the new Bill first.