Belton, PatrickWednesday, 23 May 1934 |
Dáil Éireann Debate
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In Committee on Finance. - Financial Resolution No. 2—Income Tax
It was apparently with reluctance that the Minister defined the meaning of this Resolution. I would not go so far as to say that he moved a Resolution which he did not understand, but by degrees the...
Then it amounts to this, that the Minister is making the positive statement that the Commissioners of Valuation worked that clause, allowed one-sixth off what should be the proper valuation, and that...
That is what is proposed. The Minister proposes to bolt out the allowance of one-sixth on the part of the Revenue Commissioners, which was allowed up to this. I think this is a further Economies Bill...
Does the Minister suggest then that the allowance of one-sixth has not been given up to the present?
What Commissioners is the Minister speaking of? Is it the Commissioners of Valuation or of Income Tax?
Is that a kind of left-handed suggestion that the Commissioners of Valuation did not do their job right?
I think the Minister sees the point very well, and that it is only a question of saying “No” to my “Yes”, or vice versa. We will leave it at that. The privileged class that the Minister speaks of as...
I said nothing about houses built by local authorities. The Minister should be more careful or more attentive.
There is no exemption in the Resolution and the Minister is aware of that.
If it has not been a dead letter, what is the need for this Resolution?
In Committee on Finance. - Financial Resolution No. 5—Customs.
Has the Minister any information to show what increase, if any, there has been in price as a result of these duties?
Yes.
If the price has, in fact, been reduced what is the need of a tariff?
I hope the Minister does not take my question as being in opposition to the tariff. I am simply pointing out that it is strange he should keep the tariff so high if he has no need for it. Can the Mi...
I would like a more serious statement than that from the Minister.
The Deputy can make his own speech.
The Minister is aware that I gave way to the Minister for Industry and Commerce. I put a question to the Minister, and I would like to have a more serious statement from him than merely to say that ...
I am surprised at the obstructive tactics of my friend, Deputy Donnelly. I assure him that I will not take up the time of the House very much longer. I will certainly leave him plenty of time betwee...
I do not want to speak in criticism of this. I simply want to get information from the Minister. The Minister has chosen this time to impose tariffs, and yet he tells us that these tariffs are to he...
I saw it reported in the public Press; a certain manufacturer in the City of Dublin mentioned that he had got money at 2½ per cent.
A manufacturer.
I will give the information to the Minister. I will be boiling the matter down to the tariffs——
I did not catch what the Minister said. I suppose the Minister is afraid of the danger line and he wants to be very meticulous about the latitude here.
Deputy Belton could speak volumes in describing the Minister and then he would not have said all he knows about him.
The Minister was not at all sorry when he followed me into this House seven years ago.
I met the Minister once before and I will meet him another day. I think it is playing fast and loose with the protective policy in this country to put on tariffs of 25 to 50 per cent. The Minister h...
Will the Minister please keep quiet?
The Minister must now keep quiet. I am afraid he is too big for his shoes.
Not in yours, I hope; they would not fit me. If ever I want to stand up in shoes I will stand up in a man's shoes not in yours. There was a time when people, who knew something about this policy of ...
How much more is it?
There is no use in surveying the field in the previous ten years. The position is very different now. The co-operation that your Government got from the official Opposition is very different to the ...
Nothing and I would not have mentioned it if it were not for the interruption of the Deputy sitting behind the Minister. The only point that would require a business explanation is that the very theo...
I am not questioning his being on the right road. I am questioning the pace at which he is travelling. While we are only producing 50 per cent. of our requirements of a certain article it is not rig...
Give a little consideration to the men who are practically in their bare feet. The Minister's explanation as to why he pursues this policy of tariffs, when we are so far from supplying our own requi...
By whom?
When?
The Minister did not reply to a point I put to him. Can he give an idea approximately when these industries will be able substantially to supply our own requirements.
I asked the question and I think the Minister might politely answer it. I have as much right as the Minister to discuss industries and I am not going to stop talking. Question put and agreed to.
In Committee on Finance. - Financial Resolution No. 14—Customs.
It was only a Belfast firm.
In Committee on Finance. - Financial Resolution No. 15—Excise.
In extension of the line taken by Deputy Morrissey, I want to say that to me it sounds very peculiar that a Government which is carrying out a policy of self-sufficiency should limit the amount of Iri...
No, but I was dealing with the limitation of the growth of tobacco and the raising of the hopes of the farmers by the facilities offered during the last couple of years. But now we are up against a s...
The explanation of the Minister was that the price we paid for tobacco was 1/3.
In my opinion, tobacco cultivation here is not, and will not, be economic unless we pay the price by a large cut in the revenue. That price was reduced to 1/3, but the Minister tells us now that it i...
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