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Dáil Éireann - Volume 326 - 11 February, 1981 Order of Business. The Taoiseach Charles J. Haughey The Taoiseach: It is proposed to take No. 6 (Resumed) only. Private Members' Business, No. 16 (Resumed), will be taken between 7 p.m. and 8.30 p.m. Mr. O.J. Flanagan Mr. O.J. Flanagan Mr. O.J. Flanagan: May I put three questions to the Taoiseach on the one subject? My motion, No. 8 on the Order Paper, was No. 79 yesterday—it seems to be going backwards. Will the Taoiseach, if possible, arrange with the Whips that this motion be taken during Government time, having regard to its importance and urgency? Alternatively, would the Taoiseach arrange to have the terms of the motion accepted in order to save time? Will he admit that a mistake has been made in this case and have this grave injustice—— An Ceann Comhairle Padraig Faulkner An Ceann Comhairle: The Deputy may not make a speech. Mr. O.J. Flanagan Mr. O.J. Flanagan Mr. O.J. Flanagan: Will he arrange for an early discussion of the motion in view of its urgency and importance? The Taoiseach knows how urgent and important it is. The Taoiseach Charles J. Haughey The Taoiseach: I will discuss the matter with the Whips. Mr. Kelly Mr. Kelly 1460 Mr. Kelly: Would you give me two [1460] minutes, Sir, to raise a matter of principle? In the last couple of sitting days you have allowed Deputy Bruton to ask questions whose purpose was to unpick items in various Estimates which Deputy Bruton regarded as not credible. I put down a question with the same object, bearing not just on the Estimates but on an item in the Minister's budget speech in which he saved himself an item of £200 million by estimating it as the likely contribution—— An Ceann Comhairle Padraig Faulkner An Ceann Comhairle: I am sorry, Deputy, this is not in order. Mr. Kelly Mr. Kelly Mr. Kelly: You know, Sir, that I am not likely to be disorderly, that I am not a Gene Fitzgerald—— Mr. Wilson Mr. Wilson Mr. Wilson: Deputy Fitzgerald, the Minister for Finance, if you please. An Ceann Comhairle Padraig Faulkner An Ceann Comhairle: This is not a matter for the Order of Business. Mr. Kelly Mr. Kelly Mr. Kelly: If it is in order to ask questions in regard to the Estimates why is it not in order to ask a question about an integral operation in relation to the budget—— An Ceann Comhairle Padraig Faulkner An Ceann Comhairle: This is not in order. Mr. Kelly Mr. Kelly Mr. Kelly: I cannot ask the Minister a question on the budget if he does not choose to answer it. An Ceann Comhairle Padraig Faulkner An Ceann Comhairle: If the Deputy wants to discuss the matter with me later he can do so. Mr. Kelly Mr. Kelly Mr. Kelly: I know the answer is to go to the Committee on Procedure and Privileges but that Committee may be forgotten in a matter of a couple of months. An Ceann Comhairle Padraig Faulkner 1461 [1461] An Ceann Comhairle: Deputy Noel Browne to move his motion. Dáil Éireann 326 Order of Business. General Debate 19810211
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