asked the Taoiseach the trading surplus of the public sector for the purpose of national income statistics for each of the years 1958 to date.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Public Sector Trading Surplus.
2.
Apart from the constituent shown in the national accounts publications as "Income of Post Office and Post Office Savings Bank", the trading profits of public corporations (i.e. State-owned trading enterprises) are not separately distinguished in the compilation of the national income accounts. A special compilation has been made of the aggregate trading profits of the principal public corporations, after allowance for depreciation but before direct tax, as compiled for the national accounts.
I propose, with your permission, a Cheann Comhairle, to circulate with the Official Report, a statement showing the trading profits of the public sector in each year 1958 to 1968.
Following is the statement:—
TRADING profits of the public sector, after allowance for depreciation, before direct tax, 1958 to 1968.
(£million)
|
1958 |
1959 |
1960 |
1961 |
1962 |
1963 |
1964 |
1965 |
1966 |
1967 |
1968 |
|
|
Public corporations |
6.1 |
9.2 |
11.1 |
9.6 |
10.3 |
11.6 |
11.1 |
11.4 |
12.0 |
15.0 |
17.7 |
|
Post Office and Post Office Savings Bank |
|||||||||||
|
1.9 |
1.9 |
2.1 |
2.2 |
2.7 |
3.1 |
3.5 |
4.9 |
5.7 |
7.0 |
7.9 |
|
|
8.0 |
11.1 |
13.2 |
11.8 |
13.0 |
14.7 |
14.6 |
16.3 |
17.7 |
22.0 |
25.6 |
Question No. 3 postponed.