MacEntee, Seán

Wednesday, 24 May 1939

Dáil Éireann Debate
Vol. 76 No. 2

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Order of Business.

It is proposed to take items 6, 1, 5, 7, 3, 8, Vote 53 and then items 2 and 9. Public Business will not be interrupted at 9 o'clock in order to take Private Deputies' Business. If the business, as o...More Button

The Second Reading will be taken next Wednesday.More Button

Financial Resolutions—Report.

I move:—“That the Dáil agree with the Committee in Financial Resolution No. 1.”More Button

I think so. They may come on shortly.More Button

That is Resolution No. 2.More Button

This looks like the resumption of the debate on the General Resolution.More Button

I do not think it is necessary for me to say anything on this Resolution. I listened to the very reasoned speech of Deputy Dillon and I am not prepared to controvert what he said, that the incidence ...More Button

I am not prepared to controvert his statement, that the incidence of this tax is not limited to those on whom it is first imposed.More Button

The Deputy has heard it now. At the same time neither Deputy Dillon nor Deputy Mulcahy has indicated to us how it would be possible to maintain our existing services unless we found revenue to pay fo...More Button

When it comes to a question of finding the money, even allowing that there are certain disadvantages in the way in which we have taken to find it in this year's Budget, nevertheless I think, on the wh...More Button

Financial Resolution No. 2—Surtax.

I move that the Dáil agree with the Committee in Financial Resolution No. 2. Question put and agreed to.More Button

Financial Resolution No. 3—Income-tax.

I move that the Dáil agree with the Committee in Financial Resolution No. 3.More Button

The result of this Resolution is that it effects a reduction in the personal allowance of a married man from £225 to £220, and in the case of a single man from £125 to £120. It is a complementary part...More Button

Yes, I have to give it as part of the whole scheme.More Button

No, it is not.More Button

The reduction in the personal allowance applies to all taxpayers, but in the case of those whose income is mainly earned, the other part of the proposal will represent a relief to them. I shall give ...More Button

I shall deal more fully with that matter on the Committee Stage of the Finance Bill, but I should like to say this: That I have yet to learn that a small shopkeeper goes to all the trouble and expense...More Button

There are two Resolutions.More Button

Yes, bicycles and bicycle parts.More Button

Suppose I deny that such a plan was laid before me.More Button

Not by the policy of the Minister for Finance.More Button

It was not tariffs which closed the pork market.More Button

It was the influence of the Border that affected Clones.More Button

I move: “That the Dáil agree with the Committee in Financial Resolution No. 6.More Button

No. The tax will fall as under the existing conditions.More Button

In so far as oil of that type is liable to duty now, and has always been liable to duty, there will be no change. Question put and declared carried.More Button

I move: “That the Dáil agree with the Committee in Financial Resolution No. 7. Question put and declared carried.More Button

I move: “That the Dáil agree with the Committee in Financial Resolution No. 8. Question put and agreed to.More Button

I move: “That the Dáil agree with the Committee in Financial Resolution No. 9. Question put and agreed to.More Button

I move: “That the Dáil agree with the Committee in Financial Resolution No. 10. Question put and agreed to.More Button

In Committee on Finance. - Excess Vote (Department of the President of the Executive Council).

I move: Go ndeontar suim ná raghaidh thar £221 14s. 7d. chun slánuithe do dhéanamh ar Iomarca ar an Deontas do Roinn Uachtarán na hArd-Chomhairle in aghaidh na bliana dar chríoch an 31adh lá de Mhárta...More Button


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