Business, as set out on the Order Paper, will be taken in the following order: Votes 47, 50 and 42. Private Members' Business will be taken from 6 p.m. to 7.30 p.m.
Order of Business.
On the Order of Business, we have decided to withdraw motion No. 21, for which notice of precedence has been given. Would the Minister for Transport and Power be in a position now, or within the next half an hour, to let us know if the Minister for Social Welfare could take —with the permission of the other Parties in the House—No. 27?
I shall make inquiries.
I have nothing to do with CIE; I do not control CIE.
Nobody does.
It is bad enough without the Minister for Social Welfare controlling it.
No. 27?
Yes.
Very well.
In fairness, the other Members of the House must agree as well.
Deputies
That is all right.
That is agreed, so: No. 27.
We are very accommodating. If the Government had approached the farmers in the reasonable way we did——
Run, rabbit, run. The Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries was not there at all today. He ran today.
God knows, they have enough gardaí in the streets.
I would appeal to the Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries to go out and to meet the representatives of the 50,000 farmers who are now congregated in Merrion Square, after sending him an invitation.
(Cavan): He should bring Deputy Sheridan with him.
It would be better to have the Minister meet them than to have such a very large number of gardaí on duty in this connection. I had to thread my way through them today to this House. Even Deputies were impeded.
Who have the red faces?