I move:—
Go ndeontar suim ná raghaidh thar £1,090 chun íoctha an Mhuirir a thiocfaidh chun bheith iníoctha i rith na bliana dar críoch an 31adh lá de Mhárta, 1939, chun Roimh-íocanne Ilghnéitheache áirithe d'aisíoc leis an gCiste Teagmhais.
That a sum not exceeding £1,090 be granted to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1939, for the Repayment to the Contingency Fund of certain Miscellaneous Advances.
The purposes for which this money is required are set out in Part III of the Estimate. By far the larger part of the requirement—£861 12/—arises out of the practice whereby the Revenue Commissioners, when dealing with deeds and other instruments for public departments, stamp them without requiring payment, at the moment, of the duty thereon. It has been the custom to make these payments for stamp duty from the Contingency Fund and, at the end of the year, when the amount of the indebtedness to the Revenue Commissioners has been ascertained, to recoup the Contingency Fund for the amount so paid. The sum required is £861 12/- under this head. This is an additional sum of £212 17s. 6d. required as expenses in connection with the installation of the President. The other items are those which generally occur—bounties in respect of triplets and an item of 10/-, recoupment of the motor taxation account in respect of a motor driving licence issued free of charge to a member of a foreign Government who desired to have the use of a car for one day.