It is proposed to take business as on the Order Paper, Nos. 3, 6 (Vote 53), and, at 7 o'clock, No. 4. If No. 4 is completed before 10.30 p.m., the other business will be resumed. It is proposed to adjourn then until Tuesday next.
Order of Business.
Why meet on Tuesday?
We have a lot of business to conclude.
No meeting was arranged for Friday, when we were here.
I am open to any suggestion so far as meeting on Friday is concerned.
Mr. Byrne
Can the Tánaiste arrange to give any time in the near future to discuss the difficulties of people in the bombed area? Has he any reply to that? It is a very serious matter for a couple of hundred families?
Is it not true that families embarrassed in the City of Dublin at present can get help from the Dublin Corporation and the Red Cross, and would it not be well for the Tánaiste to mention that in reply to the Deputy?
The Deputy knows it well.
I know he may, though he would scarcely ask if he knew. For the guidance of people who are in distress in the city and are in doubt as to where they should go, would it not be well to refresh their memories?
All these organisations have been working and looking after the people in the area. The Deputy knows that and probably he has seen the work being done, as I have seen it. The people have been looked after by the Red Cross Society, by the St. John Ambulance Brigade and the A.R.P. services. The Deputy knows that if they go to one of these they will be looked after.
Item No. 3.
Mr. Byrne
I want to know where people will get £20 to buy furniture?
The Deputy should resume his seat.
Mr. Byrne
It is an important matter.
Possibly, but it is not in order, nor on the Order Paper.
Mr. Byrne
They do not know what to do. It should be on the Order Paper.
The Deputy should have some sense of order. Disorderly interruptions will not secure extra provision for the people he refers to.