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Dáil Éireann debate -
Thursday, 14 Mar 1963

Vol. 200 No. 9

Committee on Finance - Vote 36—Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies.

I move:

That a supplementary sum not exceeding £2,120 be granted to defray the charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of

March, 1963, for Grants (Grants-in-Aid) to the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (No. 13 of 1940).

This sum is required to enable payment of a death gratuity to be made to the estate of a senior professor of the School of Celtic Studies who died recently. The gratuity is payable under the terms of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies Superannuation Scheme, 1947. The total amount payable is £2,889 and the balance of £769 is being met from savings generally in the provision originally made in the estimate for the School of Celtic Studies.

Does the Act of 1947 lay down the amount of the gratuity?

No; it is related to his service.

According to a Schedule of the Act?

If this is a statutory debt which the Minister must pay, we shall not quibble about it. I know the debt is statutory but was the amount of it statutory?

It is statutory in relation to the years of service of the professor.

Vote put and agreed to.
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