I move:
That Deputy Seán Dunne be suspended from the service of the House.
Committee on Finance. - Suspension of Deputy.
Question put.
The Dáil divided: Tá, 28; Níl, 6.
Tá
- Andrews, David.
- Booth, Lionel.
- Brady, Philip.
- Brennan, Joseph.
- Breslin, Cormac.
- Calleary, Phelim A.
- Carter, Frank.
- Carty, Michael.
- Clohessy, Patrick.
- Colley, George.
- Corry, Martin J.
- Cotter, Edward.
- de Valera, Vivion.
- Fanning, John.
- Faulkner, Pádraig.
- Gibbons, Hugh.
- Gibbons, James M.
- Gilbride, Eugene.
- Gogan, Richard P.
- Haughey, Charles.
- Hillard, Michael.
- Kitt, Michael F.
- Lynch, Jack.
- Moore, Seán.
- Ó Briain, Donnchadh.
- Ó Ceallaigh, Seán.
- O'Malley, Donogh.
- Smith, Patrick.
Níl
- Cluskey, Frank.
- Desmond, Eileen.
- Dunne, Seán.
- O'Leary, Michael.
- Pattison, Séamus.
- Tierney, Patrick.
Tellers:— Tá: Deputies Carty and J. Gibbons; Níl: Deputies O'Leary and Pattison.
Question declared carried.
Deputy Seán Dunne is suspended from the service of the House. I must call on the Deputy to leave the House, according to the decision.
I was grossly insulted here by a so-called representative of the Bible Belt and I am not going to leave the House, as a protest against that kind of attack, which I will not take from him or any of his class.
The House has decided that Deputy S. Dunne is to leave the House. I ask him again to leave the House.
With respect to the Chair, I feel I must take this stand in the interest of ordinary good manners in this House. If nobody else will inculcate it, I will do my best to do so.
They would not know what he is talking about.
I object to the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown constituency being described as a Bible Belt. Deputy Booth is one of the people of the highest integrity in this House.
He is an arch-reactionary.
He is not a reactionary.
You are too young to know.
I am old enough to know what you are.
I must ask that Deputy S. Dunne be escorted from the House.
The Captain of the Guard approached Deputy S. Dunne, who refused to leave his seat.
In view of the fact that Deputy S. Dunne refuses to leave the House, I must suspend the sitting until 8 o'clock.
Sitting suspended at 7.35 p.m. and resumed at 8 p.m.