It is proposed to take the business in the following order:— No. 6 (Votes 28 to 14, inclusive) as on the Order Paper and Nos. 3, 4, 5, 1 and 7. It is proposed to interrupt business at 7 p.m. to take No. 7 and, when completed, to resume the order. Questions will be taken at 3 o'clock.
Order of Business.
On the Order of Business, could the Taoiseach inform the House as to the date when it is expected the Dáil will resume after the Recess?
The 26th October.
That was announced yesterday.
It was announced yesterday that certain measures would be taken on the 26th October. That was not to say the Dáil might not open a day or two before that. Could the Taoiseach inform the House what weighty reasons decided the Government to adjourn the Dáil for such a long period?
That is always the period. It is the usual period—the same as last year.
Oh, indeed it is not. The Dáil adjourned on the 15th July last year because of exceptional circumstances. The Dáil is adjourning at least a fortnight before its usual time this year.
Is it not a rest from all the publicity?
In view of the fact that there has been so much talk about emigration and unemployment, is it because the Government does not want to be embarrassed that it has decided to have such a long adjournment?
We cannot deal with the problems to which the Deputy has referred by the kind of talk in which the Deputy indulges.
That kind of claptrap will not get the Taoiseach anywhere. The Government is not interested in the welfare of the people——
The Deputy has no interest in anybody except himself, and everybody knows that.
——who are unemployed and who have to emigrate.
The Deputy has no interest in anyone but himself, and everybody knows that.
(Interruptions.)