I move:
Go ndeontar suim ná raghaidh thar £560 chun íoctha an Mhuirir a thiocfaidh chun bheith iníoctha i rith na bliana dar críoch an 31adh Márta, 1937, mar Chúiteamh don Dublin Greyhound and Sports Association, Ltd.
That a sum not exceeding £560 be granted to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending 31st March, 1937, for Compensation to the Dublin Greyhound and Sports Association, Ltd.
This Estimate arises out of the report of a committee of inquiry which was appointed on 20th April, 1932, to inquire into, among other things, the desirability of granting licences to greyhound racing track companies to set up and maintain totalisators. The committee reported that it had come to the conclusion that it was not desirable, in the public interest, to grant licences of this nature. In their report the committee also pointed out, however, that, although there was no completed contract between the Minister for Finance and the companies owning greyhound tracks in the city, it was clear that a totalisator licence was promised to this as well as to the other company, on certain specified conditions which the particular company concerned in this Estimate was prepared to accept. The committee also considered that the company, acting on the strength of that understanding, incurred certain expenditure, and that, therefore, their case merited special consideration. This Estimate arises out of the consideration which has been given to the company on the basis of the report of the committee of inquiry, and represents the sum which has been agreed upon in settlement of the issues between the company on the one hand and the State on the other.
