Tairgim:—
Go ndeontar suim breise ná raghaidh thar £300 chun íoctha an Mhuirir a thiocfaidh chun bheith iníoctha i rith na bliana dar críoch an 31ú Márta, 1945, chun Tuarastail agus Costaisí na Saotharlainne Stáit.
That a supplementary sum not exceeding £300 be granted to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending 31st March, 1945, for the Salaries and Expenses of the State Laboratory.
The sum sought is required to meet the cost of additional temporary staff and extra expenditure in respect of cost-of-living bonus and emergency bonus.
During the year it was necessary to recruit—and pay from the Vote for the State laboratory—a temporary chemist at £5, inclusive, and emergency bonus, a week to replace a customs and excise officer who had been on loan to the laboratory, his salary being borne on the Vote for Office of the Revenue Commissioners. It was also necessary to employ for three months two further temporary chemists at the above rate, and a temporary laboratory attendant at 27/-, plus bonus, a week on the analysis of samples of kelp. There was no provision in the original Estimate for the State laboratory for any of these four officers. As indicated in Part III of the Supplementary Estimate, the additional cost will be approximately £320.
The decision of the Government to increase as from the 1st January, 1945, the Civil Service cost-of-living bonus and emergency bonus involves further extra expenditure of about £180. The gross additional expenditure is thus £500, of which £200 is offset by savings on the Vote, leaving £300 as the net extra amount required.
