I move that the Bill be now read a Second Time. There is one difference here. The Bank of Ireland Act is not mentioned any more.
Committee on Finance. - Appropriation Bill, 1961—All Stages.
Leave granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to apply a certain sum 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-one, and the year ending on the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-two, to appropriate to the proper supply services and purposes the sums granted by the Central Fund Act, 1961, and this Act, and to make certain provision in relation to borrowing.
—(Minister for Finance).
Agreed to take remaining stages today.
That has been dropped because it is now a permanent provision in the Finance Bill?
Yes.
It has not yet been passed?
I expect it to be passed next week.
It will be very awkward if it is not.
Question put and agreed to.
Bill considered in Committee.
Sections 1 to 5, inclusive, agreed to.
Abstract of Schedules A and B agreed to.
Schedule A agreed to.
SCHEDULE B.
Question proposed: "That Schedule B be a Schedule to the Bill."
Is this Excess Vote Schedule at the top of page 4 not unusual? Could we have some explanation? Is this not because of another botch which the Comptroller and Auditor General made you make good?
It is unusual.
Did the Minister not make a mess of this and did the Committee on Public Accounts and the Comptroller and Auditor General not tell him to be a good boy and to do it right?
I do not know if that is a true presentation of the facts.
Is the fact that it is here not an indication that it is the reason for it? Deputy Healy there is surprised at hearing he made such a mess of it.
Question put and agreed to.
Title agreed to.
Bill reported without amendment, received for final consideration and passed.
This is a Money Bill within the meaning of Article 22 of the Constitution.