The business will be taken as on the Order Paper, item 1 and then items 10 to 15 inclusive. Motions for Financial Resolutions will be taken in the appropriate places. If the business as ordered is completed to-day it is proposed to ask the Dáil to adjourn until Tuesday, March 24th.
Order of Business.
When is the Turf Bill likely to be circulated?
This week.
Is there any indication as to whether Private Deputies' time will be allowed between now and the period when the House will be dealing with financial business proper?
I do not know if this matter has been discussed with the Parliamentary Secretary to the President, as I think these matters are usually arranged with him. I take it that until what is known as the financial business comes to be discussed by the House, arrangements will be made to have Private Members' time available on some days.
Will the Vice-President allocate a day for Private Members' time? As the House will not sit tomorrow, and as two days will be lost next week, we will be up against the financial business, and that will be made a reason for disallowing any time for Private Deputies' business.
If next week is not required for public business, is there any reason why the House should not sit as usual and get ahead with Private Deputies' business, considering the immense accumulation on the Order Paper?
Can we have from the Vice-President some indication that an effort will be made to allow Private Deputies' business to be taken? If the Government Whip comes along and pirates Private Members' time the obligation is on him to save time and not merely to take it from Private Members in this promiscuous fashion.
I will see that the matter is taken up and discussed this afternoon.
Is this a matter that has been agreed by the Whips of the two big Parties?
Not at all. We have no private conferences.
I am not aware that any agreement was arrived at between the Parties.
I understood that we were to take the Financial Resolution at the commencement of public business, dealing with the Sugar (Control of Imports) Bill, 1936.
Financial Resolutions are taken immediately before the Committee Stages of the Bills to which they relate.
It is set out in the notice on the White Paper that was circulated that it would be taken at the commencement of public business.
It is always circulated in that fashion.