It is proposed to take items 5 and 6 on the Order Paper today. If they are finished, the House will consider Private Deputies' Business. The motion for the adjournment of the Dáil will be moved at 7 p.m. in order to permit a statement to be made on the food situation.
Order of Business.
When is it the intention of the Minister for External affairs to communicate to the House the terms of the message which, I understand, he has received from the Holy Father in regard to the motion carried in this House?
As regards the Order of Business, would it not be possible to leave No. 6 over, because if we embark on No. 6 after No. 5 there is a possibility that No. 8, Private Deputies' Business, may not be started before 7 o'clock and, apparently, we must now conclude at 10 o'clock.
At 7 o'clock there will be a statement on the food situation.
Yes, and if you start it at 7 o'clock it will conclude at 10 o'clock?
Yes.
Could we not get to No. 8 before 7 o'clock?
We are taking the Defence Forces (Temporary Provisions) Bill and the additional Estimates. If they are concluded, motion No. 2 in Private Deputies' Business will be taken. All that will terminate at 7 o'clock when the motion for the adjournment of the Dáil will be moved in order to have a discussion on the wheat situation.
The Minister will have a half-hour less to-night and would it not be possible to start No. 8 earlier than 7 o'clock, because of the importance of the subject?
I think three hours will be quite enough.
Will the Minister for External Affairs tell us if he intends to communicate the terms of the Holy Father's message in regard to the motion passed by the House?
If the Deputy has any question to ask, he should ask it in the usual way.
Will you give us the text of the message?
The Deputy must ask the question in the proper form before I give an answer.
I suggest I am asking it in the proper form.