asked the Taoiseach if he will furnish the estimates for receipts and expenditure for the year 1951 in respect of the following items: (1) commission earnings of import agents; (2) (a) receipts, and (b) payments of gold bullion; (3) portal receipts from extern shipping; (4) net receipts in respect of tourism and travel; (5) (a) income from investments abroad; (b) outgo of profits to extern holders of Irish capital; (6) net outgo in respect of rental of cinematograph films; (7) (a) emigrants' remittances and legacies from all countries, (b) remittances and legacies to all countries; (8) (a) pensions and allowances received from all countries, (b) pensions and allowances paid to all countries; (9) payments to the British Government; (10) expenditure of Irish Lights Service; (11) (a) posts, telegraphs and telephone earnings; (b) posts, telegraphs and telephone payments; (12) (a) diplomatic, consular and similar expenditure in Ireland; (b) diplomatic, consular and similar expenditure abroad; (13) (a) other known current receipts, (b) other known current payments, and (14) the balance on the international payments accounts which is unaccounted for but which has been traditionally treated as a current recepit.
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asked the Taoiseach if he will furnish the figures for the following items in 1951: (1) changes in external funds of the Central Bank; (2) changes in the net external assets of the banks; (3) purchases and sales of securities by private holders through Irish stockbrokers and banks; (4) money received from abroad for capital issues by Irish companies; (5) net capital payments in respect of life insurance; (6) withdrawals from British Post Office Savings Bank; (7) encashment of British Savings Certificates; (8) changes in sterling holdings of trustees savings bank; (9) changes in sterling holdings of Post Office Savings Bank Fund; (10) changes in sterling holdings of Savings Certificates (Reserve) Fund; (11) changes in sterling holdings of the National Health Insurance Fund; (12) changes in sterling holdings of other Government funds; (13) sums issued for disbursement abroad in respect of Government loans; (14) indebtedness to the Government of the United States of America under the European Recovery Programme and (15) grant from United States Government under the European Recovery Plan.
With the permission of the Ceann Comhairle, I propose to take Questions Nos. 4 and 5 togther.
The information asked for by the Deputy in these questions includes almost all the items in the Balance of International Payments Statement for 1951. The statement is not yet available but every effort is being made to complete it as soon as possible and it is hoped to publish it within the next fortnight.
Will the Parliamentary Secretary say whether the estimate for last year's deficit in the balance of payments was based on the 1950 figures for invisible exports?
That is a separate question.
If the Deputy puts that question down I will be able to answer it.