asked the Minister for Finance if he will state the number of Emergency Powers Orders, and amendments to Emergency Powers Orders, issued since the emergency period started.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Emergency Powers Orders.
The number of Emergency Powers Orders, and amendments to Emergency Powers Orders, made since the emergency period started was at a current date 7,846. This figure includes 443 amendment Orders and 95 revocation Orders, that is, Orders merely revoking Emergency Powers Orders in whole or in part. The figures mentioned do not include Orders made by local authorities acquiring land compulsorily for the purpose of turf production and allotments. The getting of particulars of these would involve an expenditure of time and effort which I do not think would be justified.
asked the Minister for Finance if he will state (1) the number of Orders which have been made to date by the Government under Emergency Powers Acts, 1939 to 1945; and (2) the number of (a) Orders, (b) regulations, (c) rules, (d) by-laws, and (e) schemes which have been made in exercise of the powers conferred by Orders made by the Government under Emergency Powers Acts, 1939 to 1945.
The number of Orders made up to a current date by the Government under the Emergency Powers Acts was 522 and the numbers of Orders, regulations, rules and schemes made in exercise of the powers conferred by Orders made by the Government under those Acts were 7,303, 22, 3 and 14, respectively. No by-laws were made in exercise of powers conferred by a Government Order. Most of the 7,310 subsidiary Orders were of very limited application, approximately 5,330 of them being under the Wages Standstill Orders. Also, 95 revocation Orders, that is, Orders merely revoking other Orders wholly or partly are included in the figures for Orders. The figures do not, however, include Orders made by local authorities acquiring land compulsorily for the purpose of turf production and allotments. To get particulars of such Orders would involve an expenditure of time and effort which I do not think would be warranted.