Vol. 92 No. 18
Seeing that this debate has been carried on much longer than we expected and that the Central Fund Bill has to be passed this week, I think it necessary to move the following motion:—
Go suidhfidh an Dáil níos déanaí ná 9.30 p.m. anocht agus go dtógfar Ordú an athló tráth nach déanaí ná 12 a.m.
That the Dáil sit later than 9.30 p.m. to-night and that the Order for the adjournment be taken not later than 12 a.m.
What happens if you do not get the Central Fund Bill by 12 o'clock?
We shall have to sit to-morrow.
The alternative is to sit to-morrow. I am sure nobody wants to protract the debate unduly but if you are going to fix an hour to-night, and that we are to have recourse to sitting to-morrow if the necessity arises, why not fix a more reasonable hour than midnight for the adjournment, and if the debate is not finished by then adjourn until to-morrow?
That is a matter for the House itself. I am just trying to accommodate the House.
The debate is likely to end before midnight.
One never knows in a debate of this kind.
I take it the suggestion is that the House sit until 12 o'clock and that the Minister will rise to reply at about 11 o'clock?
No, that the House will sit until 12 o'clock in the hope that we may finish to-night. If not, we shall have to sit to-morrow.
If anyone but the Minister gets up at 11.30, he will be extremely unpopular, but he will be within his Constitutional rights.
