I move that the Dáil do now adjourn.
In Committee on Finance. - President Hoover's Proposal for a Moratorium.
As a matter of urgent public importance, as the Minister for Finance is here, might I ask whether, in view of the likelihood of President Hoover's proposal for a moratorium in connection with international payments being accepted, he is taking steps to see that proper representations are made to secure that the land annuities and the other sums, totalling over five million pounds, sent by us annually to England are included in the category of payments to which the moratorium will apply, without prejudice to our conviction that these payments are not justly due?
I think the Deputy should have given notice to the Chair of raising that question.
It is a simple question—whether steps are being taken or not.
I am not going into the merits of the case, but surely the Deputy is aware of the procedure. It is usual to give notice to the Chair of any matter to be raised like that.
It has happened before that a Minister has answered a question asked on an occasion like this.
I do not remember a case like this before.
I am sorry.