I move:—
Go ndeontar suim Bhreise ná raghaidh thar £470,000 chun íoctha an Mhuirir a thiocfaidh chun bheith iníoctha i rith na bliana dar críoch an 31adh Márta, 1935, chun an Deontais Talmhaíochta do mhéadú (Uimh. 35 de 1925; Uimh. 28 de 1931 agus Uimh. 1 de 1935).
That a Supplementary sum not exceeding £470,000 be granted to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending 31st March, 1935 to increase the Agricultural Grant (No. 35 of 1925; No. 28 of 1931 and No. 1 of 1935).
This Supplementary Estimate involves no new expenditure and its presentation is purely formal. As is indicated on its face prominently, the Estimate is in substitution of the Supplementary Estimate for the same amount passed on the 18th December, 1934. At that date the Rates on Agricultural Land (Relief) Act, 1935, had not become law. The further amount to be provided for relief of rates by the Act was fixed at £470,000, and it was considered desirable that this additional money should be made available before the Dáil rose for the Christmas Recess. A Supplementary Estimate for the amount was accordingly passed on 18th December, 1934. When, however, that Estimate was being framed, the statute authorising the expenditure of the additional money, not being law at the time, could not be quoted in the ambit (Part I) of the Estimate. Moreover, the effect of the Act was to amend the Acts of 1925 and 1931. Accordingly, to meet that situation all references to statutes were excluded from the ambit of the Supplementary Estimate, with the result that the purpose of the Estimate was "to increase the Agricultural Grant" without qualification as to the manner of distribution of the money.
The Rates on Agricultural Land (Relief) Act, 1935, is now law, and it has been thought necessary to introduce the present revised Estimate containing in the ambit the former references to the Acts of 1925 and 1931 with the addition of the Act of 1935. An appropriate reference to the Act of 1935 is also now made in Part III. The effect of the quotation of the statutes in the ambit of the Estimate is definitely to restrict the expenditure of the money provided by the Oireachtas to the specific method of distribution laid down in the statutes.
