Next Stage?
Army Pensions Bill, 1971: First Stage.
Leave granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide for the granting of allowances to the widows of pensioners under the Military Service Pensions Act, 1924, the Military Service Pensions Act, 1934, or the Connaught Rangers (Pensions) Act, 1936, and to provide for other matters connected with the matters aforesaid.
—(Minister for Foreign Affairs.)
If possible today.
It is not ordered for today.
Next Tuesday.
When No. 2 has been circulated—it contains provisions for pensions for widows of Old IRA men—if the parties opposite agree it might be possible to take it after lunch or tomorrow morning.
We had better see it first.
Yes.
Put it down provisionally for after the Finance Bill.
After the Finance Bill, yes, and if necessary we can put it back until tomorrow or Tuesday next.
Second Stage ordered for today.