Would the President indicate what the business for to-morrow will be?
ARRANGEMENT OF BUSINESS.
To-morrow there will be taken the Medical Practitioners Bill (Committee), Civic Guard (Acquisition of Premises) (Amendment) Bill (Committee), Appropriation Bill (Committee), Agricultural Credit Bill (Fifth Stage), Dentists Bill (Second Stage).
There will be down for to-morrow on the Order Paper certain business from the Seanad. It may or may not be considered to-morrow, but it will be on the Paper to-morrow.
Will the Currency Bill be taken to-morrow?
I cannot say yet.
Will the President bear in mind that every day the Minister for Finance is putting down amendments to the Currency Bill and that we might as well have it in its final form?
Is it proposed to take the Dentists Bill to-morrow? This Bill has just been distributed, and I think the Minister is overdoing this question of new Bills. The Bill has very close connection with the Medical Bill. The Medical Bill is not law, and the Dentists Bill certainly cannot get through this session.
I will take the Second Reading for Friday, if that will meet the Deputy.
I would urge that the Bill should not be taken until after the election.
There are points of urgency with regard to the Dentists Bill which can be shown on the Second Reading. Having got the Second Reading, I think a case can be made for advancing the Bill as far as possible before the dissolution. I should not like to urge that there should be any attempt made to have the Bill made law before the dissolution.
The discussion will be similar to that on the Medical Bill. The principles are very much the same in both cases.
Deputies will require to read the Bill. A lot of amendments are coming down from the Seanad, and, presumably, they will have to be read. The amendments to the Intoxicating Liquor Bill will require a good deal of consideration.
The usual procedure is that Bills from the Seanad are put first on the Order Paper and an order is then made by the Dáil as to when amendments to these Bills will be considered. An order may be made to-morrow to consider these amendments to-morrow; on the other hand, that order may not be made.