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"Adjournment of the Dáil – Dáil Éireann (11th Dáil)". 10 May 1944. Vol.93 No.15 p.3 c.2497–2498. Archived from the original on 23 September 2021. Retrieved 27 March 2022. I did not ask for a dissolution of the Dáil. This Dáil would not have been meeting to-day if there had been a dissolution. ... I did not ask for a dissolution, because we passed an Act last year to enable the Dáil, during this critical period, to be brought together at any time that there was need for doing so, so that the Executive at any time would have to assemble the Dáil in case there was any national issue that demanded its assembly. ... when the Dáil adjourns now it will not meet again unless there is some national issue which makes it necessary to call the Dáil together.