I move for leave to introduce the Finance Bill, 1932.
Finance Bill, 1932—First Stage.
Leave granted.
Second Stage ordered for Tuesday, 14th June.
When will the Bill be circulated?
Immediately.
Immediately?
Early next week.
That is not immediately.
Surely the Deputy has had time to discuss it. He knows everything that is going to be in it. The Bill is based mainly on the Resolutions he has been discussing during the past four days.
The difficulty we are in is that the Ministers have turned tail themselves from quite a number of their proposals and introduced a number of modifications. We want to know the full effects of these. If that Bill is not in our hands before Monday week, there is no possibility of getting agreement to take it on Tuesday.
May I put it to the Deputy that if the Second Stage is taken on Tuesday—and we will have to ensure, for the conduct of the business of the House, that it is taken on Tuesday—the Committee Stage will not be taken until after the Eucharistic Congress.
It could not be.
It will not be.
I should like to ask the Minister to take into consideration the circumstances under which the other Resolutions and this Resolution this evening were passed through, and the very inadequate discussion that we were able to have, when asking us to take the Second Stage after having the Bill for only twenty-four hours.
Of course, we will take that into consideration, but we hope the Opposition will take into consideration the deliberate policy of obstruction pursued on Wednesday, when Deputy Mulcahy got up and talked about the McKenna Duties and did not resume his speech on Thursday on the matter.
I resumed my speech on Thursday on the matter, and I hope the Minister has taken careful note of the points I made on Thursday.
If the Deputy has not forgotten them himself.
The point that has not yet been answered is: why this Resolution was not brought before us earlier than the stage we had it last week when, under the plea of urgency, the matter was put through without adequate discussion, owing to the Minister's own failure to bring in the Finance Resolutions on Tuesday.
To bring in the guillotine.
The Dáil adjourned at 10.30 p.m. until 3 p.m. on Wednesday.