: It is proposed to take business in the following order: Nos. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9 (Resumed); Private Members' Business from 7 p.m. to 8.30 p.m. — No. 20 (Resumed).
Order of Business .
: On the Order of Business, I should like to ask the Taoiseach if in view of the H-Block hunger strike——
: That is not in order. The Deputy is aware that I ruled out that question and he may not raise it now.
: I want to ask the Taoiseach if he will make a statement to the House——
: The Deputy may not raise that matter on the Order of Business.
: I am entitled to ask the Taoiseach——
: The Deputy may not raise this matter on the Order of Business. It is disorderly.
: How can the Chair know what the Deputy wishes to say if he does not listen to him?
: I have already ruled the question out of order.
: Am I not entitled to ask the Taoiseach to make a statement to the House?
: No. The Deputy is not so entitled. The Deputy may raise a matter that is pertinent to the Order of Business but this has nothing to do with it.
: I am entitled to ask the Taoiseach to clarify what was said at Letterkenny——
: No. The Deputy may not do so.
: We are entitled to get clarification from the Taoiseach in view of his failure to refute the speech made in Letterkenny by Síle de Valera——
Deputies
: Chair.
: I am calling on the Minister for Finance to move item No. 4.
: Surely when there is implied incitement to violence and when trouble may take place——
: The Deputy has been given the ruling of the Chair.
: Surely it is in the national interest that the Taoiseach should clarify the matter? He should dissociate himself from the statement made by Deputy Síle de Valera——
: The Deputy is being completely disorderly.
: Is this more of the Taoiseach's ambivalence, his double-talk so far as Northern Ireland is concerned? This House and the Irish nation are entitled to know where we stand.
: This is totally disorderly. I am calling on the Minister for Finance to move the next item.