Dáil Éireann - Volume 6 - 11 April, 1924

BUSINESS OF THE DAY.

The PRESIDENT: I move that we sit longer than 4 o'clock this evening. I fear that it will be necessary to sit longer in order to deal with business that we have on the Order Paper to-day, if it is not desired that we should sit again to-morrow. If that meets the views of Deputies, I move that we sit later than 4 o'clock this evening. Otherwise I see no way out of it except by meeting to-morrow.

AN CEANN COMHAIRLE: Is it proposed to take No. 1 on the Paper, the Broadcasting Report?

The PRESIDENT: I do not think so, Sir. I think that, apart from the First Reading of the Reconstruction Bill and the Second Reading of the Railways Bill, the whole time of the Dáil will be occupied to-day, and I would propose, then, to take the Final Report of the Special Committee on Broadcasting on the next day after the Easter Recess that we would meet.

AN CEANN COMHAIRLE: We are meeting specially for the Budget Statement on that day.

The PRESIDENT: I would leave it over until the 1st May.

Mr. DAVIN: Is it suggested by the President, in moving for an extension of the sitting after 4 o'clock, to have a short adjournment in the meantime?

The PRESIDENT: Yes, I would agree to that. I would suggest that about 1.30 or 2 o'clock would be a convenient time.

Ordered—That the Dáil sit later than [3196] 4 o'clock for the consideration of the Second Stage of the Railways Bill.