It is proposed to take the business as on the Order Paper, Estimates from 65 to 53 inclusive, omitting No. 63.
Order of Business.
Will there be any Private Deputies' time this week?
Not to-day.
This week?
Can the Minister say when he hopes to have the Labourers Bill, or is it intended to put it through this session?
It is intended to put it through this session, but I cannot fix a date.
I take it that we will deal with the Estimates before we deal with the Labourers Bill.
Not necessarily.
When is it proposed to take the Turf Bill?
At an early date. It is not possible to give the exact date.
I desire to direct the attention of this House again to the Order of Business and to a fact that I mentioned before. We are at present engaged in the abolition of the Seanad and, at the same time, we are being handed a list of business with a notification that the Government intend to deal with it the following day. The Opposition is expected to be in the position to discuss the business at length and in detail. That cannot be done, and unless the Government is in the position to give reasonable notice to the Opposition of the date on which it is going to handle public business, public business will not be debated in this House as it ought to be.
Surely that notification would come through the Whips.
Will the Turf Bill be disposed of in time for the cutting of turf this year?
It will be disposed of in time for the burning of turf.
You must cut it before you burn it.
You cannot expect the Minister to know everything.
Unlike Deputy Dillon.