It is quite clear, Sir, that the Minister for Finance is trying to provoke Deputies in this House, because it is grotesque for the Minister for Finance to say that he has come in here to introduce an Estimate, calling for the expenditure of £720 in connection with his own Department, but that he requires notice of any question arising in connection with that expenditure. The whole Estimate procedure, Sir, becomes farcical if the Minister comes in here and says that he will answer no inquiry in regard to the substance of the Estimate, whether he has the information or whether he has not, and that if anything arises on the Estimate it must be put down by way of Parliamentary Question which can only be answered after the Estimate is disposed of. Now, we have no guiding line here as to whether this increase in the rates is due to the acquisition of new property or to the ordinary rise in the rates. Therefore, we can only give our own conjecture as to what this Estimate arises from. Deputy MacDermot may have noticed that, in his own constituency, the county council recently struck the rate, but when the general Estimate was before them they were informed that the board of health estimate was up by £5,000, the asylum estimate was up by £2,000, and the vocational education estimate was up by £1,000. It was therefore decided that there could be no new steamrolling done in the county at all this year because there was no money to pay for it. The chairman of the county council anticipated that this was merely a momentary difficulty and that at the end of the financial year it would have disappeared and he turned to his colleague the Fianna Fáil chairman of the board of health to confirm that view. The chairman of the board of health said he was sorry that he could not give any confirmation, that the estimate of the board of health was up by £5,000 this year and that it would be up by £3,000 next year. I then directed the attention of the local authority, as I now direct the attention of the Minister to the fact that we have come to the end of four glorious years' spending of borrowed money and that we have now started on 60 weary years of repayment. While that repayment is going on, this Supplementary Estimate is going to come in here again and again for 60 weary years.