asked the Minister for Finance why the Revenue Commissioners stipulate that tenders for 1,000 electric lamps offered by them will only be considered if the purchaser undertakes to export them from Éire, in view of the fact that supplies of such lamps or the raw materials wherewith to make them are exceedingly difficult to come by.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Tenders for Electric Lamps.
Electric lamps of the type in question are prohibited to be imported except under quota licence issued by the Department of Industry and Commerce under the Control of Imports Acts, 1934 and 1937. The lamps in question were imported without the production of such a licence and without payment of duty and they were accordingly seized under the Customs Acts.
Large quantities of any particular kind of goods which have been seized for the contravention of quote import prohibitions would not normally be offered for sale except for exportation. The concurrence of the Department of Industry and Commerce for the sale of the electric lamps in question for home use has been obtained and the conditions of sale have accordingly been altered.