Appropriation Act, 1944

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Number 17 of 1944.


APPROPRIATION ACT, 1944.


ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section

1.

Issue of £30,100,444 out of the Central Fund for the year 1944-45.

2.

Power of the Minister for Finance to borrow up to £30,100,444.

3.

Appropriation of sums voted for supply services, viz., £46,013,832.

4.

Short title.

Abstract of Schedules (A) and (B) to which this Act Refers .

Schedule (A) .

Schedule (B) .

Acts Referred to

Foreshore Act, 1933

No. 12 of 1933

Air-raid Precautions Act, 1939

No. 21 of 1939

Children's Allowances

No. 2 of 1944

President's Establishment

No. 24 of 1938

Electoral Act, 1923

No. 12 of 1923

Juries Act, 1927

No. 23 of 1927

Vocational Education Act, 1930

No. 29 of 1930

Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies

No. 13 of 1940

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Number 17 of 1944.


APPROPRIATION ACT, 1944.


AN ACT TO APPLY A CERTAIN SUM OUT OF THE CENTRAL FUND TO THE SERVICE OF THE YEAR ENDING ON THE THIRTY-FIRST DAY OF MARCH, ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND FORTY-FIVE, AND TO APPROPRIATE TO THE PROPER SUPPLY SERVICES AND PURPOSES THE SUMS GRANTED BY THE CENTRAL FUND ACT, 1944, AND THIS ACT. [11th July, 1944.]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:—

Grants out of the Central Fund.

Issue of £30,100,444 out of the Central Fund for the year 1944-45.

1.—The Minister for Finance may issue out of the Central Fund and apply towards making good the supply granted for the service of the year ending on the thirty-first day of March, one thousand nine hundred and forty-five, the sum of thirty million, one hundred thousand, four hundred and forty-four pounds.

Power of the Minister for Finance to borrow up to £30,100,444.

2.—(1) The Minister for Finance may borrow from any person and the Bank of Ireland may advance to the Minister for Finance any sum or sums not exceeding in the whole thirty million, one hundred thousand, four hundred and forty-four pounds, and for the purpose of such borrowing the Minister for Finance may create and issue any securities bearing such rate of interest and subject to such conditions as to repayment, redemption or otherwise as he thinks fit.

(2) The principal and interest of any securities issued under this Act and the expenses incurred in connection with the issue of such securities shall be charged on the Central Fund or the growing produce thereof.

(3) Any moneys raised by securities issued under this Act shall be placed to the credit of the account of the Exchequer and shall form part of the Central Fund and be available in any manner in which such Fund is available.

Appropriation of sums voted for supply services, viz., £46,013,832.

3.—(1) All sums granted by this Act and the other Act mentioned in Schedule (A) annexed to this Act out of the Central. Fund towards making good the supply granted, amounting, as appears by the said Schedule, in the aggregate to the sum of forty-six million, thirteen thousand, eight hundred and thirty-two pounds, are appropriated and shall be deemed to have been appropriated as from the date of the passing of the Acts mentioned in the said Schedule (A) for the services and purposes expressed in Schedule (B) annexed thereto. The abstract of schedules and schedules annexed thereto, with the note (if any) to such schedules, shall be deemed to be part of this Act in the same manner as if they had been contained in the body thereof.

(2) In addition to the grants out of the Central Fund referred to in the foregoing sub-section of this section, there may be applied out of any money directed under section 2 of the Public Accounts and Charges Act, 1891 , to be applied as appropriations-in-aid of the grants for the services and purposes specified in Schedule (B) annexed hereto the sums respectively set forth in the last column of the said Schedule, amounting, as appears thereby, in the aggregate to the sum of two million, three hundred and ninety-five thousand, nine hundred and thirty-three pounds.

Short title.

4.—This Act may be cited as the Appropriation Act, 1944.

Abstract of Schedules (A) and (B) to which this Act Refers.

Schedule (A).

GRANTS.

Grants out of the Central Fund

£46,013,832

Schedule (B).

APPROPRIATION OF GRANTS.

Year

Sums not exceeding

Supply Grants

Appropriations-in-Aid

£

s.

d.

£

s.

d.

1943-44 (Supplementary)

1,025,388

0

0

31,780

0

0

1944-45

44,988,444

0

0

2,364,153

0

0

Total                           £

46,013,832

0

0

2,395,933

0

0

Schedule (A).

GRANTS OUT OF CENTRAL FUND.

£

s.

d.

For the Service of the year ended on the 31st day of March, 1944: Under Act No. 11 of 1944

1,025,388

0

0

For the Service of the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1945:

Under Act No. 11 of 1944

14,888,000

0

0

Under this Act

30,100,444

0

0

Total

£46,013,832

0

0

Schedule (B).

APPROPRIATION OF GRANTS.

Part I.

Schedule of Supplementary sums granted, and of sums which may be applied as Appropriations-in-Aid in addition thereto, to defray the charges for the several Public Services herein particularly mentioned for the year ended on the 31st day of March, 1944.

Sums not exceeding

Vote No.

Title

Supply Grants

Appropriations-in-Aid

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

£

£

9

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of Public Works (1 & 2 Will. 4, c. 33, secs. 5 and 6; 5 & 6 Vict., c. 89, secs. 1 and 2; 9 & 10 Viet., c. 86, secs. 2, 7 and 9; etc.)

4,500

*2,000

16

For Pensions, Superannuation, Compensation, and Additional and other Allowances and Gratuities under sundry Statutes (4 & 5 Will. 4, c. 24; 22 Vict., c. 26; 50 & 51 Vict., c. 67; 55 & 56 Vict., c. 40; 6 Edw. 7, c. 58; 9 Edw. 7, c. 10; 4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. 86; 9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 67 and c. 68; 10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 36; No. 1 of 1922; No. 34 of 1923; No. 7 of 1925; No. 27 of 1926; No. 11 and No. 36 of 1929; No. 32 of 1933; No. 9 of 1934; No. 39 of 1936; No. 29 of 1938; No. 16 and No. 21 of 1939; No. 24 of 1942; etc.); Extra-Statutory Pensions, Allowances, and Gratuities awarded by the Minister for Finance; fees to Medical Referees and occasional fees to Doctors; etc.

30,000

20

For certain Miscellaneous Expenses, including certain Grants-in-Aid and payments of Compensation for Death or Personal Injuries

10

21

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Stationery Office; for Stationery, Printing, Paper, Binding, and Printed Books for the Public Service; and for sundry Miscellaneous Services, including Reports of Oireachtas Debates

10

9,110

25

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Attorney-General, etc., and for the Expenses of Criminal Prosecutions and other Law Charges, including a Grant in Relief of certain Expenses payable by Statute out of Local Rates

2,000

2,500

26

For Grants to Universities and Colleges (8 Edw. 7, c. 38; No. 42 of 1923; No. 32 of 1926; No. 35 of 1929; and No. 27 of 1934), including certain Grants-in-Aid

70,000

30

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Agriculture, and of certain Services' administered by that Office, including sundry Grants-in-Aid

24,510

*1,150

33

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Gárda Síochána (No. 7 of 1925, No. 10 of 1926, No. 5 of 1937 and No. 19 of 1941); and for certain Expenses of the Local Security Force including Grants-in-Aid (No. 28 of 1939)

18,264

4,830

35

For such of the Salaries and Expenses of the District Court as are not charged on the Central Fund (No. 27 of 1926, secs. 49 and 50; No. 15 of 1928, sec. 13; and No. 48 of 1936, secs. 51 and 77)

1,700

39

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Public Record Office, and of the Keeper of State Papers, Dublin (30 & 31 Vict., c. 70; 38 & 39 Vict., c. 59; and 39 & 40 Vict., c. 58), and for the purchase of Historical Documents, etc.

44

41

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Local Government and Public Health, and certain Services administered by that Office, including Grants and other Expenses in connection with Housing, Grants to Local Authorities, sundry Miscellaneous Grants and Grants-in-Aid, and certain charges connected with Hospitals

123,010

42

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Registrar General of Births, &c. (7 & 8 Vict., c. 81, sec. 54; 26 Vict., c. 11, sec. 9, and c. 27; 26 & 27 Vict., c. 52, sec. 11, and c. 90, sec. 20; 42 & 43 Vict., c. 70; and 43 & 44 Vict., c. 13)

144

300

43

For the Expenses of the Maintenance of Criminal Lunatics in the Dundrum Asylum (8 & 9 Vict., c. 107)

419

*115

44

For the Salaries and Expenses in connection with the Administration of the National Health Insurance Acts, 1911 to 1942, and the Widows' and Orphans' Pensions Acts, 1935 to 1940; for services in connection with Food Allowances and with Supplementary Allowances to certain Beneficiaries under the latter Acts (Emergency Powers Act, 1939) and for sundry Contributions and Grants, including certain Grants-in-Aid in respect of the cost of Benefits and Expenses of Administration under the National Health Insurance Acts.

23,450

*2,700

45

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Education

1,500

49

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Institutions of Science and Art and for certain Miscellaneous Educational Services and sundry Grants-in-Aid

1,000

50

For Expenses in connection with Reformatory and Industrial Schools, including Places of Detention (8 Edw. 7,.c. 67; No. 17 of 1926; No. 12 of 1941; Etc.)

350

1,140

52

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Offices of the Minister for Lands and of the Irish Land Commission (44 & 45 Vict., c. 49, sec. 46, and c. 71, sec. 4; 48 & 49 Vict.,-c. 73, secs. 17, 18 and 20; 54 & 55 Vict., c. 48; 3 Edw. 7, c. 37; 7 Edw. 7, c. 38, and c. 56; 9 Edw. 7, c. 42; Nos. 27 and 42 of 1923; No. 25 of 1925; No. 11 of 1926; No. 19 of 1927; No. 31 of 1929; No. 11 of 1931; Nos. 33 and 38 of 1933; No. 11 of 1934; No. 41 of 1936; and No. 26 of 1939)

10

53

For Salaries and Expenses in connection with Forestry (9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 58, and No. 34 of 1928), including certain Grants-in-Aid

2,050

17,000

54

For Salaries and Expenses in connection with Gaeltacht Services, including Housing Grants and the purchase and sale of Homespuns

10

*6,250

55

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Industry and Commerce, including certain Services administered by that Office

90,000

56

For Transport and Meteorological Services, including a Grant-in-Aid

10

58

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Marine Service [Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894 to 1939, and the Foreshore Act, 1933 (No. 12 of 1933) ]; for certain payments in respect of Compensation, including extra wages of seamen and the cost of medical treatment; and for payments in respect of the provision of certain Protective Equipment for Ships and Crews

8,800

*5,000

61

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs (45 and 46 Vict., c. 74; 8 Edw. 7, c. 48; 1 and 2 Geo. 5, c. 26; The Telegraph Acts, 1863 to 1928; No. 14 of 1940 (Secs. 30 and 31); No. 14 of 1942 (Sec. 23); etc.), and of certain other Services administered by that Office

80,245

14,115

63

For the Army and the Army Reserve (including certain Grants-in-Aid) under the Defence Forces (Temporary Provisions) Acts, and for certain administrative Expenses in connection therewith; for the Expenses of the Office of the Minister for the Co-ordination of Defensive Measures; for Expenses in connection with the trial and detention of certain persons (No. 28 of 1939, No. 1 of 1940 and No. 16 of 1940, etc.); for certain Expenses under the Offences against the State Acts, 1939 and 1940 (No. 13 of 1939 and No. 2 of 1940) and the Air-raid Precautions Act, 1939 (No. 21 of 1939); for Reserve Medical Supplies for Civilian Hospitals; for certain Expenses of the Local Defence Force (including Grants-in-Aid) (No. 28 of 1939); for certain Expenses in connection with the special Commemoration of the 1916 Rising; for certain. Expenses in connection with.the National Blood Transfusion Council; and for a Grant to the Irish Red Cross Society

10

64

For Wound and Disability Pensions, Further Pensions and Married Pensions, Allowances and Gratuities (No. 26 of 1923, No. 12 of 1927, No. 24 of 1932, No. 15 of 1937, No. 2 of 1941, and No. 14 of 1943); Military Service Pensions, Allowances and Gratuities (No. 48 of 1924, No. 26 of 1932, No. 43 of 1934 and No. 33 of 1938); Pensions, Allowances and Gratuities (No. 37 of 1936); Payments in respect of Compensation for Members of the Local Defence Force (No. 28 of 1939); and for sundry Contributions and Expenses in respect thereof, etc.

11,185

69

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Supplies, including payment of certain Subsidies and Sundry Grants-in-Aid

329,860

74

For the Alleviation of Distress due to War and Famine in Europe and India (including a Grant-in-Aid)

200,000

75

For the Repayment to the Contingency Fund of certain Miscellaneous Advances

1,497

76

For Salaries and Expenses in connection with Children's Allowances (No. 2 of 1944)

800

Total of Part I                           £

1,025,388

31,780

*Deficit

Schedule (B).

Part II.

Schedule of sums granted, and of sums which may be applied as Appropriations-in-Aid in addition thereto, to defray the charges for the several Public Services herein particularly mentioned which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1945.

Sums not exceeding

Vote No.

Title

Supply Grants

Appropriations-in-Aid

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

£

£

1

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Secretary to the President, and for certain other Expenses of the President's Establishment (No. 24 of 1938)

3,877

2

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Houses of the Oireachtas, including a Grant-in Aid

126,704

3

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Department of the Taoiseach (No. 16 of 1924; No. 40 of 1937; and No. 38 of 1938)

15,571

4

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor-General (No, 1 of 1923), including the National Insurance Audit Office

20,934

2,000

5

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Finance, including the Paymaster-General's Office

79,000

1,255

6

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Revenue Commissioners, including certain other Services administered by that Office

990,600

43,100

7

For Old Age Pensions (8 Edw. 7, c. 40; 1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 16; 9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 102; No. 19 of 1924; No. 1 of 1928; No. 18 of 1932; and No. 26 of 1938); for Pensions to Blind Persons (No. 18 of 1932 and No. 26 of 1938); and for certain Administrative Expenses in connection therewith

3,815,250

2,00

8

For Remuneration for the Management of Government Stocks

22,750

9

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of Public Works (1 & 2 Will. 4, c. 33, secs. 5 and 6; 5 & 6 Vict., c. 89, secs. 1 and 2; 9 & 10 Vict., c. 86, secs. 2, 7 and 9; etc.)

141,953

22,700

10

For Expenditure in respect of Public Buildings; for the Maintenance of certain Parks and Public Works; and for the Execution and Maintenance of Drainage Works

1,313,905

42,500

11

For Expenses in connection with Haulbowline Dockyard

3,530

12

For the Salaries and Expenses of the State Laboratory

10,352

13

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Civil Service Commission (No. 5 of 1924 and No. 41 of 1926) and of the Local Appointments Commission (No. 39 of 1926 and No. 15 of 1940)

21,073

4,000

14

For a Grant-in-Aid of the Irish Tourist Board (No. 24 of 1939)

15,000

15

For the Salaries and Expenses of Commissions, Committees and Special Inquiries

5,953

16

For Pensions, Superannuation, Compensation, and Additional and other Allowances and Gratuities under sundry Statutes (4 & 5 Will. 4, c. 24; 22 Vict., c. 26; 50 & 51 Vict., c. 67; 55 & 56 Vict., c. 40; 6 Edw. 7, c. 58; 9 Edw. 7, c, 10; 4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. 86; 9 & 10) Geo. 5, c. 67 and c. 68; 10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 36; No. 1 of 1922; No. 34 of 1923; No. 7 of 1925; No. 27 of 1926; No. 11 and No. 36 of 1929; No. 32 of 1933; No. 9 of 1934; No. 39 of 1936; No. 29 of 1938; No. 16 and No. 21 of 1939; No. 24 of 1942; etc.); Extra-Statutory Pensions, Allowances, and Gratuities awarded by the Minister for Finance; fees to Medical Referees and occasional fees to Doctors; etc.

579,130

26,750

17

For Rates and Contributions in lieu of Rates, etc., in respect of Government Property, and for Contributions towards Rates on Premises occupied by Representatives of External Governments

150,205

540

18

For Secret Service

20,000

19

For Expenses under the Electoral Act, 1923 , and the Juries Act, 1927 (No. 12 of 1923 and No. 23 of 1927)

16,750

20

For certain Miscellaneous Expenses, including certain Grants-in-Aid and payments of Compensation for Death or Personal Injuries

12,570

21

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Stationery Office; for Stationery, Printing, Paper, Binding, and Printed Books for the Public Service; and for sundry Miscellaneous Services, including Reports of Oireachtas Debates

196,239

33,305

22

For the Salaries and Expenses of the General Valuation and Boundary Survey (1.5 & 16 Vict., c. 63; 17 Vict., c. 8 and c. 17; 20 & 21 Vict., c. 45; 22 & 23 Vict., c. 8; 23 Vict., c. 4; 27 & 28 Vict., c. 52; 37 & 38 Vict., c. 70; 61 & 62 Vict., c. 37; No. 19 of 1923; No. 3 of 1927; No. 27 of 1930; Nos. 27, 47 and 55 of 1931; No. 19 of 1932; No. 28 of 1937; No. 21 of 1939; and No. 8 of 1940; Local Government (Application and Adaptation of Enactments) Order, 1925); including Estate Duty Valuation (10 Edw. 7, c. 8), etc.

34,977

6,595

23

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Ordnance Survey and of Minor Services including the Facsimile Reproduction of Ancient Manuscripts

26,137

1,505

24

For the increase of the Grant to Local Authorities in Relief of Rates on Agricultural Land (No. 35 of 1925, No. 28 of 1931 and No. 23 of 1939)

1,270,989

25

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Attorney-General, etc., and for the Expenses of Criminal Prosecutions and other Law Charges, including a Grant in Relief of certain Expenses payable by Statute out of Local Rates

68,215

5,770

26

For Grants to Universities and Colleges (8 Edw. 7, c. 38; No. 42 of 1923; No. 32 of 1926; No. 35 of 1929; and No. 27 of 1934), including certain Grants-in-Aid

162,130

27

For payment to the Pensions Investment Account (Widows' and Orphans' Pensions Acts, 1935 et seq.)

450,000

28

For the Emergency Scientific Research Bureau, including a Grant-in-Aid

19,250

29

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Agriculture, and of certain Services administered by that Office, including sundry Grants-in-Aid

1,267,230

245,433

30

For Agricultural Produce Subsidies, etc.

870,000

31

For Salaries and Expenses in connection with Sea and Inland Fisheries, including a Grant-in-Aid

15,486

22,785

32

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Justice

47,347

33

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Gárda Síochána (No. 7 of 1925, No. 10 of 1926, No. 5 of 1937 and No. 19 of 1941); and for certain Expenses of the Local Security Force, including Grants-in-Aid (No. 28 of 1939)

2,267,216

19,975

34

For the Expenses of Prisons, the Borstal Institution, and the Maintenance of Criminal Lunatics confined in District Mental Hospitals (17 & 18 Vict., c. 76; 34 & 35 Vict., c. 112, sec. 6; 40 & 41 Vict., c. 49; 47 & 48 Vict., c. 36; 61 & 62 Vict., c. 60; 1 Edw. 7, c. 17, sec, 3; 8 Edw. 7, c. 59; and 4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. 58)

120,715

15,290

35

For such of the Salaries and Expenses of the District Court as are not charged on the Central Fund (No. 27 of 1926, secs. 51 and 77)

46,991

36

For the Salaries, Allowances and Expenses of Circuit Court Officers, Deputy Circuit Judges and Under Sheriffs; the Travelling Expenses, of Circuit Judges; and the Expenses of Revision of Voters and Jurors Lists (No. 27 of 1926, etc.)

59,803

29,630

37

For such of the Salaries and Expenses of the Supreme Court and High Court of Justice as are not charged on the Central Fund (No. 27 of 1926 and No. 48 of 1936)

55,616

560

38

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Land Registry (40 & 41 Vict., c. 57; 54 & 55 Vict., c. 66; No. 10 of 1924, sec. 102; and No. 26 of 1942, sec. 22); and of the Registry of Deeds (2 & 3 Will. 4, c. 87; 27 & 28 Vict., c. 76; 38 & 39 Vict., c. 5; and 46 & 47 Vict., c. 20)

50,539

39

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Public Record Office, and of the Keeper of State Papers, Dublin (30 & 31 Vict., c. 70; 38 & 39 Vict., c. 59; and 39 & 40 Vict., c. 58), and for the purchase of Historical Documents, etc.

6,470

40

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Charitable Donations and Bequests Office (7 & 8 Vict., c. 97, secs. 7 & 8; 30 & 31 Vict., c. 54, sec. 24; and 34 & 35 Vict., c. 102)

3,509

48

41

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Local Government and Public Health, and certain Services administered by that Office, including Grants and other Expenses in connection with Housing, Grants to Local Authorities, sundry Miscellaneous Grants and Grants-in-Aid, and certain charges connected with Hospitals

1,874,413

24,603

42

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Registrar General of Births, etc. (7 & 8 Vict., c. 81, sec. 54; 26 Vict., c. 11, sec. 9, and c. 27; 26 & 27 Vict., c. 52, sec. 11, and c. 90, sec. 20; 42 & 43 Vict., c. 70; and 43 & 44 Vict., c. 13)

14,302

4,800

43

For the Expenses of the Maintenance of Criminal Lunatics in the Dundrum Asylum (8 & 9 Vict., c. 107)

19,138

1,047

44

For Salaries and Expenses in connection with the Administration of the National Health Insurance Acts, 1911 to 1942, and the Widows' and Orphans' Pensions Acts, 1935 to 1940; for services in connection with Food Allowances and with Supplementary Payments to certain Beneficiaries under the above-mentioned Acts (Emergency Powers Act, 1939) and for sundry Contributions, Grants and Payments; including certain Grants-in-Aid in respect of the cost of Benefits and Expenses of Administration under the National Health Insurance Acts

477,076

65,799

45

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Education

202,812

75

46

For Primary Education, including National School Teachers' Superannuation and a Grant-in-Aid, etc.

4,063,039

97,543

47

For Secondary Education including the Teachers' Salaries Grant, Capitation Grant, Incremental Salary to Secondary School Teachers and Grant to the Secondary Teachers' Pension Fund

568,030

39,940

48

For Payments under the Vocational Education Act, 1930 (No. 29 of 1930), and for other purposes connected with Technical Instruction and Continuation Education

362,997

32,080

49

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Institutions of Science and Art and for certain Miscellaneous Educational Services and sundry Grants-in-Aid

54,816

4,590

50

For Expenses in connection with Reformatory and Industrial Schools, including Places of Detention (8 Edw. 7, c. 67; No. 17 of 1926; No. 12 of 1941; etc.)

134,450

5,600

51

For the Salaries and Expenses of the National Gallery, including a Grant-in-Aid

4,807

52

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Offices of the Minister for Lands and of the Irish Land Commission (44 & 45 Vict., c. 49, sec. 46, and c. 71, sec. 4; 48 & 49 Vict., c. 73, secs. 17, 18 and 20; 54 & 55 Vict., c. 48; 3 Edw. 7, c. 37; 7 Edw. 7, c. 38 and c. 56; 9 Edw. 7, c. 42; Nos. 27 and 42 of 1923; No. 25 of 1925; No. 11 of 1926; No. 19 of 1927; No. 31 of 1929; No. 11 of 1931; Nos. 33 and 38 of 1933; No. 11 of 1934; No. 41 of 1936; and No. 26 of 1939)

1,265,983

130,710

53

For Salaries and Expenses in connection with Forestry (9 & 10 Geo. 5, c. 58, and No. 34 of 1928), including certain Grants-in-Aid

163,580

54,140

54

For Salaries and Expenses in connection with Gaeltacht Services, including Housing Grants and the purchase and sale of Homespuns

13,789

256,955

55

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Industry and Commerce, including certain Services administered by that Office

281,405

3,000

56

For Transport and Meteorological Services

150,747

22,950

57

For the Salaries and other Expenses of the Railway Tribunal (No. 29 of 1924, and Nos. 8 and 9 of 1933)

2,966

58

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Marine Service [Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894 to 1939, and the Foreshore Act, 1933 (No. 12 of 1933)]; for certain payments in respect of Compensation, including extra wages of seamen and the cost of medical treatment; and for payments in respect of the provision of certain Protective Equipment for Ships

36,402

10,842

59

For Salaries and Expenses in connection with Unemployment Insurance and Employment Exchanges (including Contributions to the Unemployment Fund), Unemployment Assistance, the Special Register of Agricultural and Turf Workers, and Insurance against Intermittent Unemployment, and for certain services in connection with Food Allowances (9 Edw. 7, c. 7; 10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 30; 11 Geo. 5, c. 1; 11 & 12 Geo. 5, c. 15; 12 Geo. 5, c. 7; No. 17 of 1923; Nos. 26 and 59 of 1924; No. 21 of 1926; No. 33 of 1930; Nos. 44 and 46 of 1933; No. 38 of 1935; No. 2 of 1938; No. 28 of 1939; No. 4 of 1940; No. 3 of 1941; No. 7 of 1942; and No. 20 of 1943)

1,036,139

713,940

60

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Industrial and Commercial Property Registration Office (No. 16 of 1927 and No. 13 of 1929)

12,601

61

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs (45 & 46 Vict., c. 74; 8 Edw. 7, c. 48; 1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 26; the Telegraph Acts, 1863 to 1928; No. 14 of 1940 (secs. 30 and 31); No. 14 of 1942 (sec. 23); etc.), and of certain other Services administered by that Office

2,928,345

164,981

62

For Salaries and other Expenses in connection with Wireless Broadcasting (No. 45 of 1926), including Public Concerts

80,693

63

For the Army and the Army Reserve (including certain Grants-in-Aid) under the Defence Forces (Temporary Provisions) Acts, and for certain administrative Expenses in connection therewith; for the Expenses of the Office of the Minister for the Co-ordination of Defensive Measures; for Expenses in connection with the trial and detention of certain persons (No. 28 of 1939, No. 1 of 1940 and No. 16 of 1940, etc.); for certain Expenses under the Offences against the State Acts, 1939 and 1940 (No. 13 of 1939 and No. 2 of 1940) and the Air-raid Precautions Act, 1939 (No. 21 of 1939); for Reserve Medical Supplies for Civilian Hospitals; for certain Expenses of the Local Defence Force (including Grants-in-Aid) (No. 28 of 1939); for Expenses in connection with the issue of Medals commemorating the 1916 Rising, etc.; for certain Expenses in connection with the National Blood Transfusion Council; and for a Grant to the Irish Red Cross Society

8,620,467

204,817

64

For Wound and Disability Pensions, Further Pensions and Married Pensions, Allowances and Gratuities (No. 26 of 1923, No. 12 of 1927, No. 24 of 1932, No. 15 of 1937, No. 2 of 1941 and No. 14 of 1943), Military Service Pensions, Allowances and Gratuities (No. 48 of 1924, No. 26 of 1932, No. 43 of 1934 and No. 33 of 1938), Pensions, Allowances and Gratuities (No. 37 of 1936); Payments in respect of Compensation for Members of the Local Defence Force (No. 28 of 1939); and for sundry Contributions and Expenses in respect thereof, etc.

566,300

65

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for External Affairs, and of certain Services administered by that Office (No. 16 of 1924)

102,579

66

For a Contribution towards the Expenses of the League of Nations

9,080

67

For Employment and Emergency Schemes (including Relief of Distress)

1,250,000

68

For Salaries and Expenses in connection with Children's Allowances (No. 2 of 1944)

1,548,958

69

For the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of the Minister for Supplies, including payment of certain Subsidies and Sundry Grants-in-Aid

4,126,124

70

For Grants to the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (No. 13 of 1940)

18,290

71

For Allowances in Kind to certain Beneficiaries under the Unemployment Assistance Acts, 1933 to 1940, the Old Age Pensions Acts, 1908 to 1938, the Widows' and Orphans' Pensions Acts, 1935 to 1940, and the National Health Insurance Acts, 1911 to 1942 (No. 28 of 1939)

570,000

72

For Compensation and other Payments in connection with Injuries to Property caused by the dropping of bombs from foreign aircraft and kindred incidents while the State is not engaged in war (No. 24 of 1941)

18,750

73

For Compensation and other Payments in respect of Personal Injuries sustained by persons, not as members of State Services, as a result of the dropping of bombs by foreign aircraft and kindred incidents while the State is not engaged in war

5,400

Total of Part II

£44,988,444

2,364,153

Total of Schedule (B)

£46,013,832

2,395,933