I beg to move:—
"That the Dáil agree with the Committee in Resolution No. 10." I do not know whether I explained in Committee that this resolution is necessary by reason of the fact that there is a gap in the sugar confectionery section of the Finance Bill of last year. In that section it was provided that goods containing sweetening, other than saccharine, should be liable to the sugar confectionery duty, the idea being to charge goods sweetened with saccharine the saccharine duty, which was higher. But the fact that goods are not liable to the saccharine duty unless they contain more than one per cent. of saccharine was forgotten. The result was that manufacturers have been preparing a special brand of confectionery which contained some saccharine, but less than one per cent., and they have not been liable to the saccharine duty. This will make them liable to the saccharine duty where necessary.