I wish to ask permission to introduce a Bill to give relief from income tax for the year 1923-24 in case of National Health Insurance in Great Britain and Northern Ireland. It is a Bill equivalent to what has been passed in the British Parliament. This is part of our bargain. National Health Insurance is looked upon as a service which will not permit of the deduction of income tax from dividends or income tax from securities. In the ordinary way we ought to have introduced this Bill some time ago. I move formally for permission to bring in the Bill.
DEFENCE FORCES (TEMPORARY PROVISIONS) BILL, 1923. - FINANCE (No. 2) BILL, 1923—FIRST STAGE.
Question put and agreed to.
Second Stage ordered for Friday, 27th July.
An Leas-Cheann Comhairle at this stage took the chair.