Lemass, Seán F.Wednesday, 23 May 1934 |
Dáil Éireann Debate
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Does the Deputy want an explanation of the whole 45 duties at once?
I think it has been the practice to take each separately.
Reference No. 1 imposes a duty upon articles intended for use as holders of paper or twine. These articles at present are dutiable when made of certain materials and it is intended to make them dutia...
There is a duty of 50 per cent. on wooden containers for twine or paper.
A preferential rate of 33? per cent. The effect of the duty is to make the 50 per cent. operative on all containers for paper or twine, no matter what materials they are made of, without a preferent...
It is a new duty. No. 5 extends the existing duty upon galvanised hollow ware and brings subject to duty the articles set out in the list. The existing duties are on domestic hollow ware of galvanised...
No, the Minister is not going to answer any question until he is finished. No. 6 extends the duty upon cast iron articles. A number of these articles are at present dutiable under Emergency Orders. ...
No. Articles of rubber are excluded. No. 28 makes the same change in respect of rugs. No. 29 imposes a duty upon live domestic fowls, turkeys, geese and ducks. There has been a duty in operation upo...
The same thing applies there. It is a duty imposed on glazed articles by an emergency order some time towards the end of last year in anticipation of forestalling taking place following the announcem...
That is only in regard to certain parts of that reference. Hollow ware of domestic or household use has been dutiable. That duty is being repealed, and is being re-enacted under this reference. Some...
They have all been dutiable up to the present.
22½ per cent.
The preferential rate was abolished by emergency order in 1932.
No.
Can the Deputy say whether the price charged was the ex-factory price or price delivered? Is he clear that the 6/6 included the duty?
Is that stated? Has the Deputy made sure of it?
Does the price quoted include duty? The Deputy is sure that is correct?
There are three circumstances in which power to permit imports free of duty under licence is taken—(1) where certain industrial developments are pending, and it is necessary to secure that the market ...
He said that they were engaged in exploiting the people, and were fit only to be inmates of prisons, or words to that effect. That is quite typical of people of Deputy Anthony's mentality. Because t...
The Deputy is going to hear my reply. We have, unfortunately, a number of people who, when they get one unsubstantiated complaint about the price charged for Irish goods, condemn all Irish industrial...
I challenge the Deputy to read the telegram he said he received.
I want the Deputy to produce evidence of his statement. He has made the statement that the price charged by a Scottish contractor was 1d. less——
And that included the duty?
The Deputy said he read the telegram.
Did the Deputy say the duty was included in the price?
Inclusive of duty?
Did the telegram state that?
Did the builder tell the Deputy that that included the duty?
Did the builder tell the Deputy that, in fact, the duty is of very little importance in relation to rain-water goods, that there is complete prohibition of the use of imported rain-water goods in hou...
That builder was, I think, pulling the Deputy's leg. The Deputy was only too anxious to allow his leg to be pulled, so that he could come in here and condemn all Irish industrialists as people whose ...
There are more honest people in this country than Deputy Anthony seems to think, and quite a number of them are engaged in industry.
Deputy Mulcahy raised a question concerning reference No. 12 and the necessity for a licensing provision in that connection. The reason is that difficulties in respect of the definition were anticipa...
In Committee on Finance. - Financial Resolution No. 5—Customs.
I move: “That the Dáil agree with the Committee in Resolution No. 5.” The effect of this Resolution is really to consolidate all the duties which have been in operation on boots and shoes and which ...
It has not been operative. The preference rate in respect to British goods, which were the only goods concerned, was abolished in 1932 by Emergency Order.
On boots and shoes?
I am not aware that they have resulted in any increase in the price of boots and shoes. On the contrary, I think the general public are commenting very favourably on the fact that a very high standar...
That is a long story. I have already explained to the Deputy that this is not a new duty. There is no new tariff except on second-hand boots and shoes. The effect of this Resolution is merely to cod...
The prospects are excellent.
It is the best statement I could make.
Who was it that got a loan at 2½ per cent?
What sort of manufacturer?
Of what?
This motion deals with the tariffs on boots and shoes.
The Deputy said something about a tariff of 50 per cent.
But this statement is ridiculous.
About 50 per cent.
What has all this to do with the merits of the Resolution?
Who does not know?
Does the Deputy know the writer?
Yet he quotes the letter as being necessarily accurate?
The Deputy knows who I am.
But he does not know the writer of that letter.
But the Deputy says he knows nothing at all about that gentleman.
Any stick is good enough to beat Irish industry.
I want to ask Deputy Anthony why he quotes a letter written by somebody whom he does not know and who, he says, is a secretary of a union he never heard of.
Oh, humbug.
And did he know the union?
That is the answer to Deputy Belton.
In that case, you are out of order.
You did not think of doing it already. You made a public speech about it first.
And this is the first place you make a reference to it in public.
In a manner which prevents any possible reply.
Might I remind the Deputy and the Chair that the matter cannot possibly be replied to. An allegation can be made that cannot be dealt with on this Resolution and the Deputy takes good care that he do...
Give the information.
Stop making speeches about it until you have done so.
Why did you read it?
You did not take any steps to find out whether it was true or not.
Might I suggest that any general debate on tariffs might take place on the general Resolution?
Deputy O'Higgins said that he does not believe all the tales he hears round the country concerning the conditions in Irish factories in general, or in Irish boot factories in particular. The fact tha...
If Deputies opposite had any sincerity whatever behind their oft-professed desire to see industrial development here, they would give to Irish industry the assistance of their silence for at least a ...
We had Deputy Belton on the same lines. The speech of Deputy O'Higgins was an answer to Deputy Belton because he mentioned that the tariff upon boots and shoes was initiated by our predecessors. Depu...
It was imposed in 1924. Seven years after that tariff was imposed this Government came into office. During the whole of that period, that tariff was bringing in revenue and nothing but revenue to the...
Next time I ask the Deputy to do that before he makes the charge in public. That would be the decent thing to do, but it did not appear to strike the Deputy.
He did not raise it in a form in which it could be answered.
He takes his cue from the nominal leader of his Party. I noticed yesterday in Kilkenny, and on every occasion on which I have been present at any official function in relation to these factories, tha...
If I ever have occasion to open boot factories in Leix, in Limerick and in Cork, Deputy Anthony will be there, Deputy Bennett will be there and Deputy O'Higgins will be there mouthing the very same se...
Twelve per cent. of the requirements of the Free State was being supplied by home factories after seven years of the protective policy of the Cumann na nGaedheal Party. I do not say that we are capab...
Deputy Anthony says that he is interested in tariffs in a double-barrelled way. He is quite right. If he cannot bring down industrial revival with one barrel he has another always in reserve to hav...
The Deputies said everything that could be said detrimental to the interests of every industry in this country.
Deputy Anthony and Deputy O'Higgins should talk less about efficiency and should stop saying that I made statements here which they could prove to be inaccurate, and that statements made about industr...
Deputy McGilligan never did anything of the kind. I put it to Deputy O'Higgins if what he says is true all he has to do is read some of the speeches Deputy McGilligan made, and to repeat them here. ...
We have done 50 per cent in one and a half years, in an industry which requires a very high degree of technical skill, in which in other countries it takes five years to train workers in the skilled p...
If the Deputy would stop talking about Edenderry and if he did not represent Leix-Offaly we would be able to interest more people in that factory. Anyone we mentioned the factory to said: “No, not at...
The Deputy can put down a question about that at any time.
If the Deputy will undertake to stop talking about Irish industries for 12 months I think we will be able to do so.
In Committee on Finance. - Financial Resolution No. 6—Customs.
I move: “That the Dáil agree with the Committee in Resolution No. 6.” This is a similar Resolution and it effects a few changes which are designed to simplify the duties on wearing apparel. There ar...
In Committee on Finance. - Financial Resolutions Nos. 7 to 12—Customs.
“That the Dáil agree with the Committee in Resolution No. 7.” This is a similar Resolution. It effects no actual changes, but is designed to simplify the present Customs Schedule. Question put and ag...
I move: “That the Dáil agree with the Committee in Resolution No. 8.” This is a Resolution of a similar kind. A number of changes have been made in motor car and motor car parts by Finance Acts and ...
Where there are a number of duties they may be grouped. There are very few changes. As there are probably 500 separate parts in motor cars which may be dutiable under separate headings the intention ...
In Committee on Finance. - Financial Resolution No. 17.
The changes made by this Resolution are easily explained. Reference No. 1 imposes a minimum duty of 2d. on Rosaries. That is designed to make good the protection given to the industry a number of yea...
By reduction of the price so as to come within the exemption limit. Paragraph (b) cancels the duty on riddles, sieves and containers for paper and twine which are being reimposed by Resolution 4. Pa...
I move: “That the Dáil agree with the Committee in Resolution No. 18.” The only effect of this Resolution is to cancel duties which have been re-arranged in Resolutions Nos. 4 and 17. Most of these ...
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