I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."
The Bill, of course, contains the three sums mentioned in Resolutions Nos. 5, 6, and 7—one-third of the Estimates for the year, the Supplementary Estimates and then the Excess Vote.
Central Fund Bill, 1961—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 year ended on the thirty-first day of March one thousand nine hundred and sixty and the years ending on the thirty-first day of March one thousand nine hundred and sixty-one and one thousand nine hundred and sixty-two.
—(Minister for Finance.)
Agreed to take remaining Stages to-day.
Unfortunately, much as I would like to agree with the Minister, he is wrong. The Bill contains four figures, not three figures. As the Minister has explained only three figures to us, could we have the fourth? There is one figure in Section 1, one in Section 2, one in Section 3 and one in Section 4.
The total sum for borrowing, yes.
Question put and agreed to.
Bill considered in Committee.
Section 1 agreed to.
SECTION 2.
Question proposed: "That Section 2 stand part of the Bill."
Is Section 2 the total of Supplementaries, capital and current?
Yes.
Passed to date?
It includes both.
The total Supplementaries passed to date?
The Estimates passed to date less something like £1,800,000 taken in the Appropriation Bill last year.
That is what I was trying to get at. There was a Supplementary for Irish Steel.
Yes.
That was taken in the Appropriation Bill.
Yes.
Once it is taken into the Appropriation Bill it is gone; it has not got to come back again into the Central Fund Bill. This is an entirely new figure.
The total was £7,727,000. £1,882,000 was taken into the Appropriation Bill last year.
And similarly the Supplementary Estimates still outstanding will be taken into the next Appropriation Bill in July?
Yes.
Question put and agreed to.
Section 3 agreed to.
SECTION 4.
Question proposed: "That Section 4 stand part of the Bill."
My arithmetic is not as quick, perhaps, as the Minister's. Is the figure in Section 4 the total of the figures in Sections 2 and 3?
It is the total of the three, yes.
Question put and agreed to.
Section 5 agreed to.
Title agreed to.
Bill reported without amendment, received for final consideration and passed.
This Bill is certified a Money Bill in accordance with Article 22 of the Constitution.