asked the Minister for Finance what is the total revenue derived from imported cigarette tobacco sales in each year from 1950 to the most recent date.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Cigarette Tobacco.
8.
As the answer includes a tabular statement I propose, with your permission, a Cheann Comhairle, to circulate it with the Official Report.
The great bulk of the tobacco revenue is derived from raw leaf imported for manufacture into cigarettes, pipe tobaccos and other products. The duties on the leaf are collected without reference to end use and, accordingly, accurate statistics of the receipts from leaf used in the manufacture of cigarettes are not available. However, it may broadly be taken that such leaf accounts for about 90 per cent of the total yield.
The following table shows for the years in question the net receipts of duty from (i) raw leaf tobacco; and (ii) imported cigarettes.
|
Year ended 31 st March |
Net receipts from rw leaf tobacco |
Net receipts from customs duty on imported cigarettes |
|
£ |
£ |
|
|
1951 |
17,015,437 |
13,351 |
|
1952 |
17,781,099 |
20,690 |
|
1953 |
22,468,749 |
13,867 |
|
1954 |
22,897,511 |
19,428 |
|
1955 |
21,852,545 |
22,257 |
|
1956 |
22,534,882 |
28,792 |
|
1957 |
24,742,879 |
25,001 |
|
1958 |
25,968,029 |
31,805 |
|
1959 |
25,016,770 |
65,518 |
|
1960 |
26,963,289 |
189,865 |
|
1961 |
28,052,223 |
166,266 |
|
1962 |
31,147,711 |
312,245 |
|
963 |
32,116,284 |
314,969 |
|
964 |
32,359,711 |
652,828 |
9.
asked the Minister for Finance what is the rate of consumption of cigarette tobacco in each year from 1950 to 1963, inclusive.
As the answer includes a tabular statement, I propose, with your permission, a Cheann Comhairle, to circulate it with the Official Report.
Following is the statement:—
Particulars of actual domestic consumption of cigarette tobacco are not available. However, in the following table I am giving, as regards homemade cigarettes, particulars of the quantities manufactured for the home market in each of the years mentioned and as regards imported cigarettes, particulars of the net quantity retained for home use.
|
Year ended 31 st December |
Home-made cigarettes |
Imported cigarettes |
Total of Columns (2) and (3) |
|
Quantities manufactured for the home market |
Net quantities retained for home use |
||
|
(1) |
(2) |
(3) |
(4) |
|
lbs. |
lbs. |
lbs. |
|
|
1950 |
12,032,000 |
12,000 |
12,044,000 |
|
1951 |
12,938,000 |
10,000 |
12,948,000 |
|
1952 |
12,243,000 |
7,000 |
12,250,000 |
|
1953 |
12,518,000 |
8,000 |
12,526,000 |
|
1954 |
12,095,000 |
11,000 |
12,106,000 |
|
1955 |
12,527,000 |
14,000 |
12,541,000 |
|
1956 |
11,547,000 |
11,000 |
11,558,000 |
|
1957 |
10,810,000 |
11,000 |
10,821,000 |
|
1958 |
10,577,000 |
22,000 |
10,599,000 |
|
1959 |
10,947,000 |
64,000 |
11,011,000 |
|
1960 |
11,173,000 |
68,000 |
11,241,000 |
|
1961 |
11,619,000 |
63,000 |
11,682,000 |
|
1962 |
11,370,000 |
133,000 |
11,503,000 |
|
1963 |
11,923,000 |
203,000 |
12,126,000 |