I beg to move this Estimate of £46,990. It is a decrease of some £9,830 on last year.
ESTIMATES. - ORDNANCE SURVEY.
I do not know whether it is a slip, but I want to draw attention to it—that the phrase runs:—"Estimate of the Amount required in the Year ending 31st March, 1923. to defray the salaries and expenses of the Survey of Southern Ireland." I do not know whether that is intended to cover the geographical portion of the Bill described in the Bill of 1920 as "Southern Ireland."
I am afraid that is a mistake. As a matter of fact it is reproduced from a British Draft. That is how it occurred. I will have that rectified.
Motion made and question put: "That the Dáil in Committee, having considered the Estimates for Ordnance Survey in 1922-23, and having passed a Vote on Account of £33,000 for the period to the 6th December, 1922, recommend that the full Estimate of £46,990 for the Financial Year, 1922-23, be adopted in due course by the Oireachtas."
Agreed.
It will be necessary to report back to the Dáil from the Committee that all the Estimates have been passed, and get the resolutions bearing upon them all passed.
There are two left over—Nos. 25 and 30.
We will take the resolution when we finish them.
What is the intention regarding the other numbers not included in this?
If we were able to adjourn to-morrow until Tuesday week, I should be able to have them then. Some of them are technical and difficult to fix up, but we expect to have them by that time.
Will you wait until the whole £37,000,000 has been moved?
I think if we pass through to the Dáil and report, it will be about the best thing we can do.
Motion: "That the Dáil do now adjourn," put and agreed to.
The Dáil adjourned at 8.30 p.m.