Vol. 18 No. 10
I move:—
Go ndeontar suim bhreise ná raghaidh thar Dheich bPúint chun íoctha an mhuirir a thiocfidh chun bheith iníoctha i rith na bliana dar críoch an 31adh Márta, 1927, chun Deontas-i-gCabhair don Chiste Foraoise (9 agus 10 Geo. V., c. 58).
That a supplementary sum not exceeding ten pounds be granted to defray the charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending 31st March, 1927, for a grant-in-aid of the Forestry Fund (9 and 10 Geo. V., c. 58).
The amount of the vote on the forestry estimate for cultural operations was £29,000, and it has been found that £32,553 will be required. That is to be found by an additional vote of £10, by an estimated saving under sub-head A of the Vote of £722, and by utilising in full the balance of £6,221 on the fund on the 31st March. At the beginning of the year it was proposed only to utilise £4,000. The balance can be utilised and that will make £2,221, and by the appropriation of additional receipts up to £600, that will make the total required, £3,553. The programme of the Department for forestry this year aimed at planting 3,500 acres. There will be considerable extension of the work next year and gradually over the next five or ten years. It was thought well this year to increase the nursery scheme of the Department itself so that seedlings for the extended programme would be raised in the Department's nursery, and that it would not be necessary to have to go elsewhere to purchase seedlings. It was found that for that purpose very much more money was required this year than was provided for in the Estimates. Of course the Estimates last year only provided for nurseries for the normal programme, not for the programme as it is likely to develop in the next two or three years. In any event, as it is likely to develop, it was thought well during the year to make provision against that and to provide extra money, so that the nurseries can be extended and the seedlings required for the extended programme in the year 1927-28, and may be in the following years, 1928-29, and 1929-30, would be-available in the Department's own nursery, and there would not be any necessity to buy seedlings from outside nurserymen.
