It is proposed to take business as follows: Nos. 17, 18 and 19 and in No. 19 Votes Nos. 8 and 48 and to take No. 3 in conjunction with Vote 48.
Order of Business.
I would like the permission of the Chair to raise on the Adjournment the subject matter of Question No. 65 of the 31st May last.
The Chair will communicate with the Deputy.
In view of the report released today in Washington and London by the International League for the Rights of Man, can the Taoiseach say whether he will be prepared to allow time for discussion of the report?
That does not arise on the Order of Business.
May I ask the Taoiseach whether he will permit discussion of the report?
The Deputy may not. Would he please resume his seat and allow business to continue?
It is in order to ask that question.
It is not. The Deputy should give notice of the question.
It is in order.
Apparently, it is not in order.
Would the Taoiseach say whether he regards the time now as being appropriate for a discussion on the Six County situation and whether it would not be wise to have such a debate at this particular juncture rather than that there should be continuing discussion outside? Surely now that the question has been discussed on the "Late Late Show", it should be discussed in a proper manner here.
I do not regard the time now as being appropriate.
With the permission of the Ceann Comhairle I propose to raise on the Adjournment the subject matter of Question No. 196 on today's Order Paper.
The Chair will communicate with the Deputy.
I wonder if the Taoiseach would indicate whether there is a probability that before the end of 1972 the Dáil will have an opportunity to consider and decide on Resolution No. 11 on the Order Paper which reads:
That Dáil Éireann approves the statement of economic and social aims contained in the Third Programme: Economic and Social Development, 1969-72, and endorses the measures proposed for their achievement.
I would require notice of that question.
The Taoiseach is being facetious because he has had three years notice of it. This resolution was put down in the name of the Minister for Finance but the Dáil has not yet considered the matter. It is not good enough, first, that the House did not have an opportunity in Government time to consider the matter and, secondly, that it should be treated so lightly.
Hear, hear.