Dáil Éireann debate -
Thursday, 3 Jul 1947

Vol. 107 No. 7

Committee on Finance. - Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices (Amendment) Bill, 1947—Money Resolution.

Minister for Finance (Mr. Aiken)

I move:—

That it is expedient to authorise such charges on and payments out of the Central Fund or the growing produce thereof and such payments out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas as are necessary to give effect to any Act of the present Session to amend the Ministerial and Parliamentary Offices Act, 1938.

General Mulcahy

This motion is opposed, too, Sir.

Motion put and declared carried.

Mr. Norton

Vótáil on that.

Mr. Aiken

Divide on Section 2.

Mr. Norton

I will give you the section.

An Ceann Comhairle

Is the Deputy speaking for the House or for the Committee?

Mr. Norton

I play a very modest rôle in all things, Sir.

An Ceann Comhairle

The Deputy is a bit late, but we will allow the division.

Motion put.

The Committee divided: Tá, 54; Níl, 24.

Tá

• Aiken, Frank.
• Allen, Denis.
• Bartley, Gerald.
• Beegan, Patrick.
• Blaney, Neal.
• Boland, Gerald.
• Bourke, Dan.
• Brady, Brian.
• Breathnach, Cormac.
• Breen, Daniel.
• Brennan, Thomas.
• Breslin, Cormac.
• Buckley, Seán.
• Burke, Patrick (Co. Dublin).
• Butler, Bernard.
• Carter, Thomas.
• Childers, Erskine H.
• Colley, Harry.
• Corry, Martin J.
• O'Connor, John S.
• O'Grady, Seán.
• O'Reilly, Matthew.
• O'Rourke, Daniel.
• O'Sullivan, Ted.
• Rice, Bridget M.
• Ruttledge, Patrick J.
• Ryan, James.
• Crowley, Honor Mary.
• De Valera, Eamon.
• De Valera, Vivion.
• Flynn, Stephen.
• Fogarty, Andrew.
• Gorry, Patrick J.
• Harris, Thomas.
• Hilliard, Michael.
• Humphreys, Francis.
• Kennedy, Michael J.
• Killilea, Mark.
• Kilroy, James.
• Kissane, Eamon.
• Little, Patrick J.
• Loughman, Frank.
• McCarthy, Seán.
• MacEntee, Seán.
• Moylan, Seán.
• O'Briain, Donnchadh.
• Ryan, Mary B.
• Shanahan, Patrick.
• Sheridan, Michael.
• Skinner, Leo B.
• Smith, Patrick.
• Traynor, Oscar.
• Ua Donnchadha, Dómhnall.
• Walsh, Richard.

Níl

• Beirne, John.
• Bennett, George C.
• Blowick, Joseph.
• Cafferky, Dominick.
• Coburn, James.
• Cogan, Patrick.
• Coogan, Eamonn.
• Corish, Brendan.
• Cosgrave, Liam.
• Dockrell, Henry M.
• Donnellan, Michael.
• Fagan, Charles.
• Flanagan, Oliver J.
• Giles, Patrick.
• Halliden, Patrick J.
• Heskin, Denis.
• Hughes, James.
• Keating, John.
• McMenamin, Daniel.
• Morrissey, Daniel.
• Mulcahy, Richard.
• Murphy, Timothy J.
• Norton, William.
• O'Higgins, Thomas F.

Tellers:—Tá: Deputies Kissane and Kennedy; Níl: Deputies Murphy and Corish.

Resolution declared carried.

Resolution reported and agreed to.

An Leas-Cheann Comhairle took the Chair.