, explained that his estimate was in two divisions, expenditure at home £3,750, and expenditure on consular services £10,000. Items for expenditure at home were salaries of staff £767, Director £250, special printing, prohibition orders, etc., £1,300, stationery and postage £30, office rent £50, railway expenses £100, contingencies £253, industrial exhibition £1,000. This latter item was passed at the last meeting of the Dáil for the promotion of a permanent exhibition of Irish goods. Those items made a total of £3,750. In addition to that there was an item of £827 required for the commission of inquiry to pay debts they had for printing of reports. Four reports would be ready before the end of the year which should be printed and for which he had got a rough estimate of £250, consequently he desired to add £1,000 to that portion of his estimate making it £4,750.
Coming to the consular services he had put down £10,000 provisionally but he thought it would be considerably less than that. The items were Paris £1,000, Antwerp £650, Rotterdam £800, Genoa £200, New York £6,000, Development (Consulate in Germany) £1,350.
The normal expenditure of the New York office was £3,500 but he had made a provision for the opening of vice-consulates in Philadelphia and other cities which the President really required for political purposes but which he thought it would be better to open in the first instance as trade offices and later on they might be declared to be political offices. It was probable this £2,800 would not be required but he had included it in case the President still desired to carry on with the scheme.
(The Leas Cheann Comhairle took the Chair at this stage.)
