Before the business is taken, would the President indicate when the Report Stage of the Housing Bill will be taken?
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Not until after the discussion of the Estimates.
Does the President mean until all the Estimates are taken?
Yes, the Committee Stage of the Estimates.
I appeal to the President to allow this Bill go through, because it is one that will go through without any discussion, I think.
I am trying to save time.
Ten minutes.
In view of the fact that people who build houses in anticipation of these grants are waiting for the money, will the President not see his way to put the Bill through to-day?
I appeal to the President to put it through, in view of the fact that a number of people are in a bad way waiting for the money. I think the President can safely take it that the Bill will go through without any discussion, particularly in view of the fact that the President has accepted two of the amendments proposed on the Committee Stage.
A larger number of people will be waiting on the 1st December if the Estimates are not passed.
That is not fair.
Is that a threat to get the Estimates through?
It is an item of information which I think ought to be perfectly plain to every member of the House.
Are we to understand that the President is anxious to burk the discussion, and that therefore he wants us to let the Estimates go through without discussion.
The Deputy is not entitled to assume anything of the sort, and he knows it.
It is pretty obvious.