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Dáil Éireann debate -
Thursday, 11 Mar 1943

Vol. 89 No. 10

Committee on Finance. - Central Fund Bill, 1943—All Stages.

Leave granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to apply certain sums out of the Central Fund to the service of the years ending on the 31st day of March, 1943-1944—(Minister for Finance.)
Agreed to take the Second Stage now.

I move that the Bill be now read a Second Time. The Central Fund Bill is regarded generally as a routine feature of our financial system. It is required to implement the Ways and Means Resolutions just passed by Dáil Eireann. The present Bill is designed to authorise the issue from the Central Fund of (a) the total amount of those supplementary additional grants for the present financial year which were not covered by the Appropriation Act of 1942, and (b) the amount of the Vote on Account for the coming financial year, which we have just been discussing. It also makes provision for borrowing by the Minister for Finance, and for the issue by him of such securities as he thinks proper.

Is this borrowing power customary?

Question put and agreed to.
Agreed to take the remaining stages now.
Bill considered in Committee.
Sections 1 to 4, inclusive, and Title put and agreed to.
Bill reported without amendment, received for final consideration, and passed.

This Bill has been certified by the Ceann Comhairle to be a Money Bill within the meaning of Article 22 of the Constitution.

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