Business will be taken in the following order as set out on the Order Paper: No. 4 and No. 6. I suggest that the Whips might meet this morning to consider whether any arrangement is desired in relation to whether we take the Social Welfare Bill to-morrow or next week.
Order of Business.
On that. The Social Welfare Bill will not be taken next week. We are not going to sit in Holy Week to do Government business which could be done at some other time. There was an occasion, already, on which we left this House sooner than respond to Government pressure to rush Government business in Holy Week. I think that the Tánaiste must understand that already.
You might get doing it again, too.
And you might easily get doing it again. The experience you had in connection with the Health Bill in 1945 was not so happy that the Ministers ought to be anxious to try and repeat it.
We will get our business, anyhow.
If an arrangement is not possible, the matter will have to be decided by majority vote here.
We intimated last night to the Parliamentary Secretary that we were prepared to meet on Tuesday next to dispose of the Bill.
Some of us will not be here.
It does not matter—not very much.
I know that.
You will not be missed.
Keep cool.
We will.
Order.
Questions will be taken at 3 o'clock.