I beg to move: "that the supplementary estimate of £24,378 required in the year ending 31st March, 1923, for payments under the Tramways and Public Companies (Ireland) Act, 1883, etc., and for other purposes connected with Irish Railways be adopted."
The original item for the Railways was £31,860 and it will be observed that there was an anticipated saving under sub-heads A and B in the original estimate. This estimate now is in respect of £24,378, and it is in respect of the annuities payable to extinguish capital advanced under various Acts for the construction of railways and the provision of other means of communication, including the construction, repair and improvement of Marine Works, in the poorer districts of Ireland.
From this expenditure the Buncrana and Carndonagh Railway, and Letterkenny and Burtonport Railway were constructed, and the Sligo and Belmullet Steamer service established. Marine Works have been carried out at several places in Donegal, Galway, Kerry, Clare and Cork, and in almost every important place except Dublin.