What is the difference between these two?
Finance (No. 2) Bill, 1968: Committee and Final Stages.
Section 1 agreed to.
Sections 2 to 4, inclusive, put and declared carried.
SECTION 5.
Question proposed: "That section 5 stand part of the Bill".
Section 5 refers to stocks on hand in the tobacco factories on Budget day.
Question put and agreed to.
Section 6 put and declared carried.
Section 7 and 8 agreed to.
SECTION 9.
Question proposed: "That section 9 stand part of the Bill".
Did the Minister not already have the power which is in section 9, subsection (1), paragraph (b)?
Apparently not, because it is required now so that it can be done by regulation in future.
It is rather odd.
Extraordinary things are found as one goes along in Finance Bills.
Question put and agreed to.
Sections 10 and 11 agreed to.
First Schedule agreed to.
Second Schedule agreed to.
TITLE.
Question proposed: "That the Title be the Title to the Bill."
I think this is the appropriate time to raise this. On the General Resolution on the Budget I raised with the Taoiseach the delay in the publication of the Finance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill which we were promised last September. I can understand it being held up in the circumstances of the Minister's accident. What is the position now? I thought we would get it included in this. Will we get a Miscellaneous Provisions Bill or will we have to wait until next year? Those who are dealing with the taxes which would be affected by the Miscellaneous Provisions Bill feel it is impossible for them to carry out their work until such time as they see the Bill.
Deputy Sweetman was not here when I replied.
I read it all.
When I replied today. As Deputy Sweetman observed, the delay in producing this legislation, which I think he will agree will be very complicated, is due mainly to the Minister's illness. He announced in his Financial Statement earlier this year that Schedules A and D would not come under the tax code in 1969-70. That will be the case.
He also said in July that the Bill would be introduced in September. When will we see it?
I am afraid I cannot answer that at this stage.
Perhaps I could raise it on the Order of Business on Tuesday when the Taoiseach will have had an opportunity of seeing what the position is.
Question put and agreed to.
Bill reported without amendment, received for final consideration and passed.
This Bill is a Money Bill within the meaning of Article 22 of the Constitution.