Dáil Éireann debate -
Tuesday, 5 Jul 1938

Vol. 72 No. 3

Committee on Finance. - Vote—8.—Compensation Bounties.

Mr. MacEntee

I move:

Go ndeontar suim ná raghaidh thar £28,000 chun slánuithe na suime is gá chun íoctha na Mhuirir a thiocfaidh chun bheith iníoctha i rith na bliana dar críoch an 31adh lá de Mhárta. 1939, chun Deolchairí ar shiúicre do rinneadh de bhiatas dúthchais agus ar thobac do rinneadh de dhuille dhúthchais, agus ar a n-íoctar aistarrac.

That a sum not exceeding £28,000 be granted to complete the sum necessary to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1939, for Bounties on sugar made from home-grown beet and on tobacco manufactured from home-grown leaf, on which drawback is paid.

These are bounties to compensate manufacturers for additional cost when their manufactures are exported.

Mr. Brennan

Will the Minister explain how the increase under Sub-head A from £6,500 to £40,000 is made out? Is it the new price of beet or what is it? What is our position with regard to the guaranteeing of beet at present?

Mr. MacEntee

That does not arise on this. We have to be quite clear where my responsibility begins and ends. The variation in these figures is occasioned by an increase in this particular case in the quantity of home-manufactured sugar used by a certain company. A large manufacturing company in Eire, the Condensed Milk Company of Ireland, which formerly used a small quantity of home-produced sugar, has contracted to purchase from Comhlucht Siuicre Eireann sufficient home-produced sugar to meet its total requirements for the coming season. It is because of the fact that a large part of the produce of this company is exported that this provision is made.

Vote put and agreed to.