Is it intended to proceed with this Bill to-day?
INCREASE OF RENT AND MORTGAGE INTEREST (RESTRICTIONS) BILL, 1926—REPORT STAGE.
Perhaps it could be taken after the adjournment for tea?
May I suggest that unless there is very great urgency— and I cannot see that there is—this Bill might be deferred until to-morrow? Certain amendments were circulated by the Minister, and other amendments have been put forward in response to those. The amendments circulated by the Minister were not delivered until this morning to most Deputies and they should have sufficient time in which to consider them.
I desire to join in Deputy Johnson's appeal. I got these amendments a little after 9 o'clock this morning, and I had to be at the Public Accounts Committee at 11 o'clock. I had little time in which to read and consider the amendments. They involve very technical matters, as the President knows. If we could go on with the Estimates to-day and deal with this Bill to-morrow, I do not think much time would be lost. The Minister's proposal to take the Fifth Stage of the Bill simultaneously with the Report Stage would receive very much less opposition if we were given an additional day to study the amendments.
I am quite agreeable to leave it over until to-morrow.
Ordered that the Increase of Rent and Mortgage Interest (Restrictions) Bill, 1926 (Report Stage) be taken to-morrow.