It is proposed to take business in the following order:—Nos. 1, 2, 3, 7, 5, 8, 4, 11, 9 and 15. Private Deputies' Business will be taken at 9 o'clock.
Order of Business.
May I ask the Taoiseach if any arrangement has been arrived at with regard to the remainder of the business?
I was just about to mention that. I understand there is a tentative agreement that we shall finish all the specified business by to-morrow night. We will then adjourn, I suggest, until 14th February, 1951.
I think it would be desirable for the Government Whips to get in touch with the Opposition Whips with a view to arranging time during the next few days.
Yes.
Mr. Brennan
Arising out of the order of business, might I ask the Taoiseach if he is prepared to indicate whether he intends to allow Government time for the discussion of the subject-matter of motion No. 29 on the Order Paper?
No. There is no time for it before to-morrow night.
Can the Taoiseach indicate whether it is the intention of the Government to set up this proposed committee of inquiry?
It is not.
Is the Taoiseach aware and——
There is a motion down. No time is being given for it and it cannot be debated now.
I wonder is the House aware that a picket was instituted against the teacher running the school? Does the House realise that?
The Deputy will resume his seat.
Is the House aware——
The Deputy will resume his seat.
——that an attempt was made——
I shall ask the Deputy to leave the House as he refuses to obey the Chair.
I will leave the House as a protest against the manner in which this matter of Miss Cooke's appointment has been dealt with.
The Deputy will leave the House.
And as a protest against the attempt to boycott the vocational schoolteacher——
The Deputy will leave the House.
The only person that can be attacked——
I do not know whether the Deputy desires to be named or not——
I call on the House to support this demand for an inquiry.
The Deputy withdrew.
I think the Government would be well advised to give time for this in view of the long adjournment contemplated.
Might I ask the Taoiseach to resume the debate on Motion No. 27, which was in progress here last week?
I have no objection to that, if the House is agreeable to it; it is a matter for the House.
I think we ought to finish that motion. The Government gave public time for part of it. Let us finish it.
There is nothing in it, only words.
Even that.
In the normal course it falls, but if the House wants it I have no objection to it.