I propose to take the business in the following order:—Nos. 2 and 4. I should like also, if there is no objection, to take No. 6 afterwards.
Order of Business.
As far as No. 6 is concerned, this Bill has been on the Order Paper for some three or four weeks. It was circulated on Wednesday and it is rather short notice, I think, to take it to-day. Accordingly I would have to enter an objection to that.
Objection taken to taking No. 6.
Our information was that we were taking No. 4 to-day.
It was arranged that Nos. 2 and 4 would be taken to-day, but I am asking would there be any objection to No. 6.
There would certainly be objection to that.
There was no amendment on the Committee and Second Stages of the Bill and I imagine that it would be a formal business merely to-day. Could we not proceed with the Report and Final Stages to-day?
The proceedings in connection with to-day's business were disclosed to the Whips during the week and during all that period the one Bill which we were informed the Government desired to have taken to-day and, if possible, finished to-day, was the Public Services (Temporary Economies) Bill, which is rather familiarly and perhaps vulgarly known as the "Cuts" Bill. That was the arrangement as I understood it.
That was the arrangement, but I am asking now if Deputies will agree to take No. 6. Does the Deputy object?
Yes.
Might I mention that no Private Members' time will be given to-day and it is not proposed to ask the Dáil to sit on Tuesday?
Ordered: That Public Business be not interrupted at 12 p.m.
Could we get any indication of the business to be taken next Wednesday?
There is the Report Stage of the Cement Bill, the Public Hospitals Bill, the Electoral Amendment Bill, the Local Government (Extension of Franchise) Bill, and this Bill, No. 6, that I have asked to have taken to-day, and the Estimates.