EIRE GOVERNMENT
Defeat On Transport Bill ELECTION TO BE HELD (Received May 10, 7 p.m.) DUBLIN, May 9. The Eire GoverjMDen(; was defeated by 64 votes to 63 on the second reading of the Transport Bill. The Government has announced- that a general election will be held. The Transport Bill provided for the incorporation of a new transport company with capital not exceeding £20,000,000 to take over the Great Southern -Railway and. the Dublin United Transport Company. The Government recently inquired into market transactions in Great ‘Southern Railway shares. Polling day will probably be May 30. “The Times” Dublin correspondent says the Opposition parties, before the Government's defeat, requested postponement of the Transport Bill because an official inquiry was -being held into allegations that leakage of information about the proposed new company enabled speculators to make huge sums by investing in railway shares. After the last general election the state of the Dail was:—Mr. De Valera’s Government party, 67, Opposition 32, Labour Party 17, Farmers’ Party 14. Independents 8. This did not give the Government a clear majority.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 191, 11 May 1944, Page 5
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178EIRE GOVERNMENT Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 191, 11 May 1944, Page 5
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