I move that the Bill be now read a Second Time. For the information of Deputies who have recently become members of the House, I should explain that the Emergency (Imposition of Duties) Act, 1932, gives the Executive Council power to impose certain customs duties by Order, but it provides also that these Orders shall cease to have statutory effect on the expiration of eight months from the date on which they are made, unless confirmed by an Act of this kind. This Bill is for the purpose of confirming the Orders which are set out in the Schedule to it. If Deputies wish to discuss any particular Order, I think they can do so more appropriately on the Committee Stage than on the present Stage. Any question they may desire to ask with regard to them can be more easily answered then. It is, I think, the normal practice of the House to discuss the Orders scheduled in Committee rather than on the Second Reading. The Bill is, therefore, at this stage more a formality than anything else.
Committee on Finance. - Imposition of Duties (Confirmation of Orders) Bill, 1937—Second Stage.
Question put and agreed to.
Committee Stage ordered for Wednesday, 27th October.