Dáil Éireann debate -
Thursday, 4 Dec 1930

Vol. 36 No. 8

Money Resolution. - Unemployment Insurance Bill, 1930—Committee Stage.

Sections 1 to 5, inclusive, put and agreed to.

First Schedule agreed to.

SECOND SCHEDULE.

Mr. McGilligan

I move:—

In the lines in the third column relating to the Unemployment Insurance Act, 1922, to insert in the third column before the word "section" the words and figures "sub-section (4) of Section I and."

This amendment is rather important from the point of view of what might be produced by its omission. Dependents' benefit is at present paid upon a certain scale. That scale is fixed by the Act of 1922. Sub-section (4) of Section I of the Act of 1922 provides that the section which says that dependents' allowance shall be payable on that particular scale shall only continue so long as the contributions fixed by the 1922 Act remain in force. These contributions are now being changed, and if we did not repeal this section the power to pay dependents' allowance would cease. We want to have that power, and we are consequently repealing the section.

Mr. Lemass

This amendment is an argument in favour of the codification of the Acts.

Mr. McGilligan

Possibly.

Second Schedule, as amended, agreed to.

Title agreed to.

The Dáil went out of Committee.

Bill reported with one amendment.

Mr. McGilligan

I announced before that the date on which the new rules come into operation cannot be fixed by this Bill, because there will be certain administrative details to be attended to. New stamps have to be printed, and old stamps have to be over-printed. I am anxious to have the rates in force as early as possible in the new year. It would assist me if I could get the Bill to the Seanad as soon as possible. As there will be no amendments, I should like to take the two remaining stages to-morrow.

Fourth Stage ordered for to-morrow.