The next item on the Orders of the Day is the Fourth Stage of the Ministers and Secretaries Bill. Is there any responsible person to say whether it is proposed to proceed with it?
PUBLIC SAFETY (POWERS OF ARREST AND DETENTION) TEMPORARY BILL, 1923. - MINISTERS AND SECRETARIES BILL.—REPORT.
Is it open to report progress?
We are not in Committee, but the adjournment of the Dáil can be moved.
There is no Minister, who is a member of the Executive Council, present and we are now taking Executive Council business. I did not raise the matter during the last Bill, because the Minister for Local Government was in his place.
entered the Chamber at this stage.
As the President has just entered, I do not intend to proceed.
There are some amendments that have not yet been completed, and I ask the permission of the Dáil to have the Report Stage of this Bill adjourned until our next meeting.
Order for Report Stage discharged, to be taken first day of next week's sitting.