I move:
"Go ndeontar suim ná raghaidh thar £2,026 chun íoctha an Mhuirir a thiocfaidh chun bheith iníoctha i rith na bliana dar críoch an 31adh lá de Mhárta, 1931, chun Roimhíocanna Ilghnéitheacha áirithe d'aisíoc leis an gCoiste Teangmhais.
That a sum not exceeding £2,026 be granted to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1931, for the Repayment to the Contingency Fund of certain Miscellaneous Advances."
As Deputies are aware, the biggest item, £1,630 odd, really represents a book-keeping transaction—the amount paid to the revenue on account of public departments. With regard to the sum of £279 2s. 5d., the position was that Mr. Barrington was in Geneva on Saorstát business when he became ill and died. The medical and nursing expenses, and the expense of transferring the remains to Dublin, were borne by the Exchequer. The recoupment to the unemployment insurance fund of benefit received arose in this way. An insured person was prosecuted for obtaining by misrepresentation certain benefits to which he was not entitled, amounting to £5 8s. 4d. The defendant was convicted and sentenced to a term of imprisonment, the imprisonment not to take effect if the amount were repaid. It was paid to the District Court clerk, who, by a mistake, treated it as a fine and transferred the money to the District Court clerk's fund. That account had been wound up and the money found its way to the Exchequer. The only way in which the money could be made good to the unemployment insurance fund was by paying it out of the contingency fund. It was necessary to do that, because otherwise the person who had been ordered to pay this would not be entitled to benefit until the money was repaid to the unemployment insurance fund. In connection with the item of £1 14s. 6d., certain processes in connection with sugar beet were assigned to the Minister for Industry and Commerce. He thought it wise to accept the assignment, and the amount shown here is in connection with the stamp duty. The final sum deals with the case of a juror who, after trial, was subject to a good deal of persecution and annoyance. He suffered substantially in his business as a result of that persecution.
