I move:
That Deputy L'Estrange be suspended from the service of the House.
I know that is exactly what Deputy L'Estrange wants——
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Suspension of Member.
I know it, too.
——with his tongue in his semi-principled cheek.
If the Taoiseach thinks——
Deputies
Get out.
On a point of order.
Deputies
Oh!
Put the other hypocrite out, too.
Do not try to shout me down.
Deputies
Oh!
The Deputy wants to be thrown out, too.
What is the point of order?
When you command silence, then maybe I will ask it.
(Interruptions.)
I have been here, Sir, for a long time.
How long?
Is there any precedent for the Leader of the House, the Taoiseach, moving the suspension of a Deputy in the terms just employed by Deputy J. Lynch, the Taoiseach, today?
The motion is in order.
I have never experienced this before. I have never heard this done.
The motion moved by the Taoiseach is quite in order.
Has a motion ever been moved in these terms before? It is a disgrace and it is conduct of which Deputy Lynch should not be guilty.
There is a motion before the House. That motion is:
That Deputy L'Estrange be suspended from the service of the House.
I am putting the question now.
Question put and declared carried.
Will the Deputy please leave the House?
Are we going to have selective justice in this country now? The creamery milk suppliers were not moved for five months and then the fines were paid by the Government. It is a well-known fact.
I must ask that Deputy L'Estrange be escorted from the House.
The Captain of the Guard approached Deputy L'Estrange, who refused to leave his seat.
In view of the fact that Deputy L'Estrange refuses to leave the House, I am suspending the sitting for 15 minutes.
Sitting suspended at 3.25 p.m. and resumed at 3.40 p.m.
Question No. 28.
Before we go to Question No. 28, could I ask the Minister a supplementary question? Will he answer the second part of Question No. 27 in regard to what he proposes to do in relation to the drastic drop in calf prices to as low as £3?
I do not accept the first part of the question and therefore I do not have to answer the second part.
Surely the Minister is aware that young Freisian calves have been selling for as low as £5 a head all over the country and that the cost of bringing them for sale is nearly £5?
I have no intention of making a bad situation worse but I would ask the Minister if he will accept returns from marts to prove the validity of my question?
Perhaps in return the Deputy might accept the Cork Examiner's evaluation of the situation, and in which it was stated that they were up £2 per head on last week's prices?
The Minister has denied that calves are being sold for as little as £3 and will he accept returns from the marts to prove that they are?
In a Waterford-Fermoy mart yesterday, they were sold for as low as £3.
Would any of the Deputies who are talking buy a calf for £3, that is, the type you would get for that price?
Question No. 28.
Can I get an answer to my question?
I have called Question No. 28.
The Fianna Fáil remedy is to cut their throats and it will not be the first time they did it.