I move: That the Dáil agree with the Committee on Resolution No. 15. This is a similar exemption.
Financial Resolutions (1941-42)—Report (Resumed). - Resolution No. 15—Steam Car Duty.
Is this in regard to coal-burning vehicles used in agriculture?
Yes.
The remission is welcome, but if you are going to increase the number of those vehicles to be used for agricultural purposes in order to facilitate the gathering of the harvest and the transference of turf from one place to another, it might be well for the Minister for Finance to realise that his concession will be of no avail unless he makes sure that the Minister for Supplies takes steps now to ensure that the additional quantities of coal fuel which may be made necessary by this remission are forthcoming; otherwise a great many persons may be induced by this concession to procure vehicles of that kind and have no coal to run them by. That cannot be remedied in the harvest time, towards which this concession is no doubt directed, unless provision is made now, and, just as I had a word to say about petrol for tractors being attended to now, I say to the Minister for Finance that, if he is concerned to promote the use of those vehicles, he must ensure that the wherewithal to use them will be made available in time. I urge him to take consultation with the Department of Supplies forthwith to that end.
Question put and agreed to.