I move:
That a supplementary sum not exceeding £10 be granted to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending 31st March, 1944, for the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Local Government and Public Health, and certain services administered by that Office, including grants and other expenses in connection with housing, grants to local authorities, sundry miscellaneous grants and Grants-in-Aid, and certain charges connected with hospitals.
The purpose of the Supplementary Estimate is to enable us to give effect to the provisions of the Housing (Financial and Miscellaneous Provisions) Acts, 1932 to 1944, under which we are enabled to give grants to private persons, public utility societies, local authorities and philanthropic societies for the building, reconstruction, acquisition, alteration, etc. of dwelling houses. As will be seen from the face of the Supplementary Estimate, it is a purely nominal one and is merely intended to give us authority to proceed on the basis of the Acts as passed by the Oireachtas. The amount will not exceed £10.