I move:
That Deputy Harte be suspended from the service of the Dáil.
Suspension of Member.
It is easy for you to do that. You could have raised your voice yesterday with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.
The question is that Deputy Harte be suspended from the service of the Dáil.
That is one way of muzzling me. I have exposed the sham republicanism of the Fianna Fáil Party.
Question put: "That Deputy Harte be suspended from the service of the Dáil."
You are sentenced by your silence.
The Dáil divided: Tá, 53; Níl, 32.
Tá
- Andrews, Niall.
- Barrett, Sylvester.
- Brady, Gerard.
- Briscoe, Ben.
- Browne, Seán.
- Burke, Raphael P.
- Callanan, John.
- Calleary, Seán.
- Cogan, Barry.
- Colley, George.
- Collins, Gerard.
- Conaghan, Hugh.
- Connolly, Gerard.
- Cowen, Bernard.
- Daly, Brendan.
- Farrell, Joe.
- Faulkner, Pádraig.
- Filgate, Eddie.
- Fitzgerald, Gene.
- Fitzsimons, James N.
- Flynn, Pádraig.
- Fox, Christopher J.
- French, Seán.
- Gallagher, Dennis.
- Geoghegan-Quinn, Máire.
- Haughey, Charles J.
- Herbert, Michael.
- Hussey, Thomas.
- Kenneally, William.
- Lawlor, Liam.
- Lemass, Eileen.
- Lenihan, Brian.
- Leonard, Jimmy.
- Leonard, Tom.
- Leyden, Terry.
- Lynch, Jack.
- McEllistrim, Thomas.
- Meaney, Tom.
- Moore, Seán.
- Morley, P.J.
- Murphy, Ciarán P.
- Nolan, Tom.
- Noonan, Michael.
- O'Connor, Timothy C.
- O'Hanlon, Rory.
- O'Leary, John.
- O'Malley, Desmond.
- Reynolds, Albert.
- Walsh, Joe.
- Walsh, Seán.
- Wilson, John P.
- Woods, Michael J.
- Wyse, Pearse.
Níl
- Barry, Myra.
- Barry, Peter.
- Barry, Richard.
- Begley, Michael.
- Belton, Luke.
- Bruton, John.
- Burke, Joan.
- Burke, Liam.
- Cluskey, Frank.
- Collins, Edward.
- Corish, Brendan.
- Creed, Donal.
- Crotty, Kieran.
- D'Arcy, Michael J.
- Deasy, Martin A.
- Donnellan, John F.
- FitzGerald, Garret.
- Fitzpatrick, Tom. (Cavan-Monaghan).
- Gilhawley, Eugene.
- Griffin, Brendan.
- Hegarty, Paddy.
- Horgan, John.
- Keating, Michael.
- L'Estrange, Gerry.
- McMahon, Larry.
- Mitchell, Jim.
- Murphy, Michael P.
- O'Brien, William.
- O'Toole, Paddy.
- Quinn, Ruairí.
- Taylor, Frank.
- Tully, James.
Tellers: Tá, Deputies Moore and Briscoe; Níl, Deputies L'Estrange and W. O'Brien.
Question declared carried.
Deputy Harte will now leave the House.
I regret the decorum of this House has had to be disrupted by me. It is a sad occasion——
The Deputy may not make a speech at this stage. He is now suspended from the service of the House.
I want to apologise——
I have told the Deputy he may not make a speech now. He has already got good mileage out of this.
I protest at that statement. It is totally uncalled for and it is a statement the Chair should never make in this House.
Fianna Fáil have got a lot of mileage out of Northern Ireland but they have done very little about it. They use it at elections but they have done nothing but talk about it while 2,000 people have been murdered. Fianna Fáil have misappropriated——
The Deputy is not in order.
They have misappropriated £100,000 to buy arms so that fellow-Irishmen and women could be murdered. The truth must be spoken in this House. The Chair should not have made such a statement.
Order.
Fianna Fáil have got more mileage than anyone else out of Northern Ireland.
The Chair regrets having to oblige people who obviously deliberately get themselves suspended from the service of the House——
I resent deeply that remark coming from you.
Will the Deputy please leave the House?
These people are personal friends of mine. I was about to apologise but having heard that insulting remark from you——
The Deputy is grossly disorderly. He is seeking to make a statement after being suspended. Does the Leader of the Opposition agree that this is correct?
No. I accept the Deputy is disorderly but I think the Chair was not orderly in using the words "deliberately seeks to be suspended" as he has just done. For the second time I protest at the abuse of language by the Chair.
He is the leader of the party——
How many leaders have Fianna Fáil? How many factions are in the party?
Deputy Cluskey rose.
Deputy Harte must leave the House before business proceeds. Will Deputy Cluskey please resume his seat. I will call him afterwards.
I was about to leave the House and I was about to apologise to you for having to use the occasion to protest——
The Deputy may not use the House to make a statement after he has been suspended. This is pushing the Chair to the utmost extreme. I ask for a little co-operation.
How many more innocent people are to be killed?
I must ask the Deputy to leave the House.
How many more innocent people must be killed until the Haughey administration takes a public stand?
The House is suspended for ten minutes.
Business suspended at 11 a.m. and resumed at 11.10 a.m.