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Dáil Éireann - Volume 38 - 28 May, 1931 Public Business. - Local Elections and Meetings (Postponement) Bill, 1931—Final Stages. Minister for Local Government and Public Health (General Mulcahy) Richard (General) Mulcahy Minister for Local Government and Public Health (General Mulcahy): I move:— “That the Bill be now received for final consideration.” 2015 [2015] Question put, and agreed to. Ordered: That the Fifth Stage be taken now. General Mulcahy General Mulcahy General Mulcahy: I move that the Bill do now pass. Mr. O'Kelly Mr. O'Kelly 2016 Mr. O'Kelly: I have not anything new to say on this stage of the Bill. We on these benches expressed our opposition to this measure when it was before the House on previous occasions. That opposition is still maintained. We believe that this Bill is, to a certain extent at any rate, playing fast and loose with public bodies and local administration. We cannot see that there is any need for a Bill of this kind. There is nothing before the [2016] House that would entitle the Minister to ask for the postponement that he proposes in this Bill. All the machinery of public bodies could be carried on, including ordinary statutory meetings, elections of chairmen, and the like, without in any way interfering with any proposition which the Minister may make later on to abolish local government in certain aspects. The Bill, in our opinion, is quite unnecessary. There is no adequate reason offered by the Minister, or any of those who have spoken in favour of the Bill, why it should be passed through the House. If the Minister insists on pressing the measure we will have to maintain our opposition even to the extent of voting against it. The Dáil divided: Tá, 64; Níl, 38. Tá.
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Tellers: Tá, Deputies Duggan and P.S. Doyle; Níl, Deputies G. Boland and Allen. Mr. Flinn Mr. Flinn Mr. Flinn: Before the result of the division is announced from the Chair I desire to say that I was not recorded in the voting although I gave my name before the Tellers came down to the Chair with the division lists. An Ceann Comhairle Michael Hayes An Ceann Comhairle: The Deputy did not pass through the Division Lobby? Mr. Flinn Mr. Flinn Mr. Flinn: I did. An Ceann Comhairle Michael Hayes An Ceann Comhairle: Did the Deputy pass—— Mr. Flinn Mr. Flinn Mr. Flinn: I did pass through the Division Lobby. I am speaking within my own knowledge, and what a Deputy of this House says of his own knowledge should be accepted by the Chair. An Ceann Comhairle Michael Hayes An Ceann Comhairle: I merely asked the Deputy a question. The Deputy did pass through the Division Lobby? Mr. Flinn Mr. Flinn Mr. Flinn: I did. An Ceann Comhairle Michael Hayes An Ceann Comhairle: And the Deputy is not in the count? Mr. Flinn Mr. Flinn Mr. Flinn: I do not know anything about that; but I did pass through the Division Lobby, and I did indicate to the Tellers how I desired to vote. An Ceann Comhairle Michael Hayes An Ceann Comhairle: The sheet as signed by the Tellers records the voting as Tá, 64; Níl, 38. If an error has taken place in regard to Deputy Flinn's vote that can be remedied in the division lists. I am bound by the figures supplied to me by the Tellers. The motion is carried. Dáil Éireann 38 Public Business. Local Elections and Meetings (Postponement) Bill, 1931—Final Stages. General Debate 19310528
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