When will the Bill be circulated?
Introduction of Bills. - Shops (Hours of Trading) Bill, 1937—First Stage.
Leave granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to make further and better provision for regulating the hours during which shops may remain
The President, in charge of the Department of External Affairs;
Deputy Seán T. O'Kelly, Vice-President, in charge of the Department of Local Government and Public Health;
Deputy Patrick Ruttledge, in charge of the Department of Justice;
Deputy Seán F. Lemass, in charge of the Department of Industry and Commerce;
Deputy Seán MacEntee, in charge of the Department of Finance;
Deputy James Ryan, in charge of the Department of Agriculture;
Deputy Frank Aiken, in charge of the Department of Defence;
Deputy Thomas Derrig, in charge of the Department of Education;
Deputy Gerald Boland, in charge of the Department of Lands;
Deputy Oscar Traynor, in charge of the Department of Posts and Telegraphs.
open for the serving of customers.— (The President.)
Second Stage ordered for Wednesday, 29th September.
There are drafting difficulties in regard to this Bill and I cannot say definitely when it will be circulated. As regards the previous Bill, the introduction of which has just been agreed to, it can be circulated at any time.
It has been circulated.
But has to be reintroduced in this new Dáil.
Deputies will remember that the dissolution of the previous Dáil cancelled any Bills which were before that Dáil and which had not been passed. They are, therefore, being reintroduced.