asked the Minister for Finance if he will state in respect of the years 1934 and 1935 the amounts paid by way of subsidies and export bounties in respect of each category of agricultural produce in connection with which such payments were made.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Subsidies and Export Bounties.
The reply takes the form of a statistical table and I accordingly propose to have it incorporated in the Official Report.
The following is the reply:—
Statement of expenditure on Export Bounty and Subsidy Schemes during the calendar years, 1934 and 1935.
|
Payments from the Votes for Export Bounties and Subsidies in respect of exports of |
Paid during Year 1934 |
Paid during Year 1935 |
|
£ |
£ |
|
|
Cattle |
599,522 |
320,348 |
|
Beef and Veal |
5,819 |
— |
|
Horses |
38,278 |
52,401 |
|
Pigs and Pig Products |
573,898 |
613,343 |
|
Sheep and LambsMutton and Lamb |
55,581 |
43,048 |
|
Calf Skins |
68,843 |
138,315 |
|
Dairy Produce |
824,402 |
574,444 |
|
Eggs and Poultry |
717,600 |
496,433 |
|
Dead Rabbits |
— |
1,221 |
|
Potatoes and Miscellaneous |
12,418 |
17,664 |
|
TOTALS |
£2,896,361 |
£2,257,217 |
In addition the following amounts were paid in bounties on exports of dairy produce out of the levies collected under the Dairy Produce (Price Stabilisation) Acts, viz.:—
|
1934 |
£1,221,233 |
|
1935 |
£597,282 |
As regards the discrepancy between the amounts paid out in 1934 and 1935 in bounties on exports of dairy produce, in accordance with the provisions of the Dairy Produce (Price Stabilisation) Acts, it should be appreciated that a new system of collection and disbursement was established under the Dairy Produce (Price Stabilisation) (Amendment) Act, 1935, as from the 1st April, 1935. Previously it had been the practice to collect a levy from all butter produced and to pay a bounty on all butter sold on the export market. As from the 1st April, 1935, the levy was collected only from butter sold on the home market and was paid only on butter sold on the export market. This reduced the administrative work necessary but did not materially affect the relevant positions of butter sold at home and abroad. If the figures for 1934 and for 1935 had been compiled on a strictly comparable basis the figure for the latter year would have shown a slight increase and not a substantial decrease on the figure for the previous year.