I move:
That a sum not exceeding £114 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 the repayment to the Contingency Fund of a certain Advance.
Committee on Finance. - Vote 57—Repayments to Contingency Fund.
Deputies are probably aware that the Contingency Fund is used to deal with some payments that may come during the year, in the first place, where the payment may be unforeseen or in the second place, where there is no heading under which it could be put. In this particular case, it was not unforeseen. It was in connection with the Presidential election. There was no heading under which it could be put and it was put into the Contingency Fund. At the end of the financial year, the Contingency Fund is replenished and this is to pay back the £114 which the Contingency Fund paid out during the year.
The sum has actually been paid. It is not a debt in connection with the Presidential installation?
It is paid.
Do we not have a regular Estimate for the Contingency Fund?
No, because there is no necessity. During the past two years, there was none at all.
Do I understand, if there was no Estimate last year or this year, that that means no triplets were born in either year? We always have a repayment to the Contingency Fund in respect of the bounty for triplets. How is it we had no triplets this year or last year?
We cannot give a firm estimate on that.
There is a bounty for triplets which is paid out of the Contingency Fund.
The people in the country think the President pays that out of his own pocket.
Vote put and agreed to.