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Dáil Éireann debate -
Thursday, 25 Mar 1943

Vol. 89 No. 12

Order of Business.

It is proposed to take items Nos. 3, 1 and 4, as on the Order Paper, and then to take, in Private Deputies' time, motions Nos. 3 and 4.

What is meant by Private Deputies' time?

It means that Private Deputies' business will be taken when public business is concluded. That is, motion No. 3 in the names of Deputies Dillon and Byrne, and motion No. 4 in the names of members of the Labour Party.

I should also like to say that it is not proposed to meet next week.

Is it not intended to remove the time limit in connection with the debate on family allowances?

A large number of members of the House have asked me to put the same question, as to whether the time limit could be extended for the debate on family allowances. I realise, of course, that I should have sent in notice of that request beforehand, but as a large number of Deputies are anxious to speak on the matter, I would like to suggest that there should be some extension of the time limit.

Notice should have been given in time. Otherwise, if there were unanimity the Chair might agree, but I understand that there is not unanimity.

Would it not be possible, Sir, to give us an extra couple of hours on a matter of such importance as this—a matter which, to my mind, is one of the most important that ever came before the Dáil?

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