Committee Reports::Interim and Final Report - Appropriation Accounts 1972 - 1973::30 October, 1975::Index

INDEX

Paragraph references are to paragraphs in the Final Report; references without qualification are to Questions in the Minutes of Evidence.


Agricultural Grants


EEC funds 116


Savings 117


Agriculture


Bacon and pork exports 627


Beef export loans 624-626 par 30


Bovine tuberculosis eradication 595, 605-613, 644


Brucellosis eradication 595-613


Coras Beostoic agus Feola 629-631 par 16


Dairy produce allowances 616-623


Disadvantaged areas scheme 639, 645-647


Land Project 615, 636


Lime and fertiliser subsidy 614


Livestock interest subsidy scheme 628


Meat processing companies 631-635


Pedigree cattle, importation of 638


Poultry and eggs 637


Seed shortage 643


Sheep, grants and marketing 639, 640


Appendix 14


Staffing 648


Wool trade 641


World Food Programme 642


Appendices, List of


Page 195


Appropriation Accounts


1972-73, special subheads opened,


Appendix 3


Comparison of audited expenditure with exchequer issues and general abstract of accounts, 1971-72


Appendix 1


Minute of Minister for Finance on Report on 1971-72 Accounts


Appendix 2


Army Pensions


Barrack damages 275


Medals 276, 277


Military service pensions 271-274


Records, filing and preservation of 277-279


Barry, Mr. M. J.


Agriculture 595-648


Fisheries 649-656


Central Statistics Office


Losses by robbery 205, 206


Machines, inclusion as incidental expenses 207-209 par 26


Post Office services 210-214


Staffing 198-204


Statistics, collection and supply 215-221


Chairman


Election 1


Takes Chair 2


Charitable Donations and Bequests


Legal costs 138


Post Office services 139-142


Chomhairle Ealaíon, An


Grant-in-aid 131-137


Civil Service Commission


Examinations 152


Local Appointments Commission, recoupment of expenses 155


Post Office services 146-151, 153, 154


Salaries 145


Comptroller and Auditor General (Vote)


Staffing 785-787


Comptroller and Auditor General


Agriculture 595, 603, 605, 610, 612, 614-616, 619, 621-624, 626-630


Central Statistics Office 208, 209, 214


Chomhairle Ealaíon, An 137


Defence 245, 248, 252, 255


Education, Office of the Minister 664-669, 676, 681, 682, 684, 687, 689, 690


Finance, Office of the Minister 102


Fisheries 649


Foreign Affairs 387


Forestry 495


Gaeltachta, Roinn na 747, 750, 751, 757, 758, 760, 763


Garda Síochána 19-21


Garda Síochána (Excess Vote) 17, 18


General Report 52, 58, 63-65, 67-70, 73, 79, 86, 96, 98


Health 806


Industry and Commerce 569, 571-573


Justice, Office of the Minister 3, 4


Labour 416, 417, 442, 443


Local Government 294, 307-309


Posts and Telegraphs 226-228


Public Works and Buildings 329, 330, 350, 351, 367, 369, 371, 385


Primary Education 717, 719


Reformatory and Industrial Schools 739


Revenue Commissioners, Office of the 520, 521, 566


Secondary Education 724-728, 731-734, 819, 839, 841


Social Welfare 583


Stationery Office 512


Superannuation and Retired Allowances 156, 158


Transport and Power 166, 168


Universities and Colleges and Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies 742, 743, 745


Vocational Education 737


Courts


Fees 48, 49


Fines 47


Staffing 46


Defence


Civil Defence 262


Civilian employees 261


Clothing and equipment 264-267


Defensive equipment 245-247, 263


Duplicate control of certain activities par 2


Educational courses and visits 270


Fishery protection vessels 248-251


Housing 252-254


Reserve Defence Force 258-260


Travelling and Incidental Expenses 268, 269


United Nations, payments due from 255-257


Duignan, Mr. J. C.


Office of the Revenue Commissioners 519-568


Education, Office of the Minister


Accounting principles, breaches of par 14


Archaeological excavations 713


Audio-visual aids 706


Bord an Choláiste Náisiúnta Ealaíne is Deartha, accounts 666-675 par 31


Chester Beatty Library 689


Courses in Irish, grants to colleges 704


Educational research 692


European Schools Day 681


Fellowships 696-699 Appendix 15


Higher Education Authority, accounts 664, 665


Higher education grants 700, 701


Institiúid Teangeolaíochta na hÉireann 690, 691


Language research 693 Appendix 15


National Council for Educational Awards 676-680


National Library 708-711


National Museum, fittings, materials etc. 712


Non-voted funds 716


Physical education 707


Publications in Irish 702, 703, 715


Appendix 15


Rosc exhibition 682-688


Royal Irish Academy 714


School transport scheme 705


University scholarships 694, 695


Farrell, Mr. C.


Public Works and Buildings 329-386


Finance, Office of the Minister


Audit of accounts of State-sponsored bodies par 5


Beartas i leith na Gaeilge 108


County development work 110


Economic and Social Research Institute 107


European Communities, payments between Exchequer and 126


Appendix 8 par 24


Extra remuneration 112


Government stocks, management of 105, 106


Grants-in-aid pars 3, 4


Minute of the Minister Appendix 2


National Savings Committee 109


Post Office services 104


Science and technology 111


Special Regional Development Fund 102, 103, 113-115 Appendix 6 par 6


Fisheries


Bord Iascaigh Mhara, waiver of liability 649, 650


Fishery offences, fines and forfeitures 656


Fishery school 651


Inland Fisheries Trust Incorporated 652-654


Salmon Research Trust 655


Sea fisheries development 650


Foreign Affairs


Bord Scoláireachtaí Cómalairte, An 406-408


Imprest accounts 387-391


Information services 405


Post Office services 395


Repatriation 396-404


Staffing 392-394


Travelling and incidental expenses 395


Forestry


Conservation 505-510


Deficiencies of tools at forest centres 511


Disadvantaged areas scheme 496


Forestry education 503, 504


Grants for afforestation 502


Lands not planted 499


Lough Key Forest Park 495


Marginal land 497, 498


Sawmilling 500, 501


Shelton Abbey forest damage 505-508


Gaeltachta, Roinn na


Ciste na Gaeilge 757


Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann 773, 782


Electricity generation on islands 747-749


Films in Irish 771, 772


Gael-Linn, grants to 751-756


Gaeltarra Éireann


control of issue sto 758-763 par 25


diversion of grant-in-aid money par 11


industrial development grants 781


Hotel scheme 779


Housing grants 764


Improvement schemes 765-770, 783


Newspapers and periodicals, grants to 777, 778


Report of previous Committee, comment on 746, 747, 784


Sailings to Aran Islands 773-776


Students from outside Gaeltacht, grants for 750


Training courses 780


Garda Síochána


Clothing and equipment 22-25


Ex-gratia pension payments 19 par 10


Losses 36-40


Reward Fund 41-43


Staffing 20, 21


Station services 26, 27


Suspense accounts 20, 21


Traffic wardens 34, 35


Witnesses’ expenses 28-33 Appendix 4


Garda Síochána (Excess Vote)


Excess expenditure 17, 18 Interim Report page 4


General Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General


Accounting principles, breaches of par 14


Appropriation accounts, delay in submission of 52-57


Budget, preparation of 99, 100


Capital Fund 69


Central Fund 68


Control of issues of public moneys to State-sponsored bodies 86-98 par 25


EEC Budget, contribution to 70-78


European Communities Act, issues under 79-85 Appendix 5


Exchequer extra receipts 64


Garda Síochána Excess Vote 63


National Building Agency Limited Acts, issues under 86-89


Outturn of the year 58-62


Stock and Store accounts 67


Surrender of balances 65, 66


Taiscí Stáit Teo., borrowing by in breach of statute par 15


Harman, Mr. J. F.


Stationery Office 512-518


Health


EEC, travelling in connection with 814


Fluoridation 816-818


Health contributions 806


Microfilming of records 810-813


Post Offices services 809


Staffing 807-808


Statutory Inquiries 815


Healy, Mr. M. J.


Houses of the Oireachtas 788-805


Hensey, Dr. B.


Health 806-818


Hynes, Mr. F. A.


Social Welfare 583-594


Industry and Commerce


Committee on Fiscal Policy 582


Committee on Industrial Progress 581


Geological Survey 578, 579 Appendix 13


Industrial Development Authority 580


Irish Productivity Centre 572


Price control 575-577


Shannon Free Airport Development Company Ltd., control of issues to 569, 570


housing subsidies 571


Wool textile industry, temporary assistance to 573, 574


International Co-operation


Council of Europe 409


EEC, contributions to 413


GATT 415


OECD 410


Travelling expenses 413, 414


United Nations, contributions to 411, 412


Jacob, Mr. M.


Comptroller and Auditor General (Vote) 785-787


Also for Comptroller and Auditor General 6th March to 1st May 1975


Justice, Office of the Minister


Commissions and special enquiries 11


Committee on Court Practice and Procedure 12


Committee on Irish and Comparative Law 10


Compensation for unsaleable chemical substances 3


Incorporated Council for Law Reporting for Ireland 9


Insurance cards, stamping of 4-7 par 23


Legal aid 13


Security installations 14-16


Travelling and incidental expenses 8


Keating, Mr. P.


Foreign Affairs 387-408


International Co-operation 409-415


Labour


An Chomhairle Oiliúna 432


Advertising and publicity 427


Advisory services for emigrants 436-440


Career information 430, 431


CERT 434, 435


ILO 428


Irish Management Institute headquarters 416-420


Losses 448


National Industrial Safety Organisation 433


Research 429


Remuneration 421, 441-447


Staffing 421-426


Travelling expenses 422


Land Registry and Registry of Deeds


Post Office services 50, 51


Lands


Acquisition, legal expenses and procedures 457-486


Cash payments for land 489-492


Church Temporalities Fund 494


Gratuities to ex-employees 493


Land bonds 487


Post Office services 454-456


Staffing 449-453


Untenanted land, income from 488


Law Charges


Costs and fees recovered 223-225


Defence of public servants 222


Linehan, Mr. T. P.


Central Statistics Office 198-221


Local Government


Amenity work grants 323


Audit of local authority accounts 324


Driving tests 313-318


Motor vehicle duties 307-312 par 27


Safety First Association 325-327


School warden service 328


Staff structures of local authorities, review of by consultants 294-306


Staffing 319


Water supply and sewerage 320-322


Mac Gearailt, Mr. S.


See Comptroller and Auditor General


McNicholl, Mr. J. M.


Rates on Government Property 290-293


Valuation and Ordnance Survey 280-289


Martin, Mr. J. S.


Charitable Donations and Bequests 138-143


Meagher, Mr. G. A.


Local Government 294-328


Miscellaneous Expenses


Assembly of the Northern Irish People, grant-in-aid 121, 122


Commemoration medals 120


Theatres, grants to 118, 119


Murray, Mr. C. H.


Agricultural Grants 116, 117


Finance, Office of the Minister 102-115, 126


General Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General 52-100


Miscellaneous Expenses 118-122


Pensions and Allowances, Increases in 123-125


President’s Establishment 101


Secret Service Page 64 (no question)


State Laboratory Page 64 (no question)


National Gallery


Entrance to from Kildare Street 661, 662


Exhibitions 658


Income, sources of 660


Purchase of pictures 657


Visitors 659


O’Brien, Mr. T.


Forestry 495-511


Lands 449-494


Ó Cearbhaill, Mr. T.


Labour 416-448


Ó Cearnaigh, Mr. S.


Army Pensions 271-279


Defence 245-270


Ó Colmáin, Mr. P. L.


Posts and Telegraphs 226-244


Ó Conaill, Mr. S.


Civil Service Commission 144-155


Remuneration 165


Superannuation and Retired Allowances 156-164


Ó Laoghaire, Mr. D.


Education, Office of the Minister 664-716


Primary Education 717-723


Reformatory and Industrial Schools 739-741


Secondary Education 724-736, 819-844


Universities and Colleges and Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies 742-745


Vocational Education 737-738


Ó Riordáin, Mr. D.


Transport and Power 166-197


Ó Slatarra, Mr. P.


Industry and Commerce 569-582


Ó Suilleabháin, Mr. D.


Chomhairle Ealaíon, An 131-137


Taoiseach, Department of 127-130


Oireachtas, Houses of the


Ciste Pinsean 804


Former Members, allowances to or in respect of 803


Restaurant 802


Salaries and Allowances 788


Staffing 790-800


Travelling expenses 789, 801


Witnesses’ expenses 805


Pensions and Allowances, Increases in


Increases in pensions, reasons for 123, 124


Statutory authority for pension payments 125 Appendix 7


Posts and Telegraphs


Appropriations-in-Aid 235, 236


Capital charges 242-244


Conveyance of mails 232


Incidental expenses 229


Losses 234, 237


Miscellaneous expenses 230 Appendix 9


Post Office Savings Bank 228


Post Office services for other Departments 238-241


Revenue 227


Satellite and international systems, contribution to 233


Stores 226


Telephone service, development of 231


President’s Establishment


Post Office services 101


Primary Education


Accommodation requirements, changes in par 7


Building programmes, delegated authority for expenditure par 17


Church of Ireland Training College, excess expenditure on 717-719 par 17


Fees for pupils in secondary tops 721


Free school books 720


Recovery of loans to training college students 723


Special Educational Project 722


Prisons


Staffing 44


Tools, raw materials etc., increase in cost of 45


Public Works and Buildings


Appropriations-in-Aid 385


Arterial drainage


construction works 371-374


cost/benefit study par 8


Barrow drainage, repayment of advances on 384


Compensation for damage to property of external Governments 369, 370


Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, cost of building for 351-368 Appendix 10 par 29


Fees for professional services par 1


Gael-Linn Teoranta, purchase of premises for 330-349 par 28


Heating of State buildings, use of native fuel for 386 par 9


New Works, Alterations and Additions 350, 375-383 Appendix 11


Sites and buildings, purchase of 329


Quigley, Mr. D.


Law Charges 222-225


Rates on Government Property


Premises occupied by representatives of external Governments 292, 293


Rates and contributions in lieu of 290, 291


Reformatory and Industrial Schools


Kilkenny child care course 741 par 19


Remand Home and Assessment Centre, Finglas 739, 740


Training School for Boys, Oberstown 739, 740


Remuneration


Salary increases 165


Revenue Commissioners, Office of the


Building contractors’ tax certificates 541-548


Diesel, illegal use of red 549-556


Health contributions 530-540


Office machinery and supplies 567


Pay-related contributions 529


Revenue accounts 520, 521, 561-565


Staffing 560


Tax collection, problems in administration of 519, 522-525, 557-559, 568 Appendix 12


Value-added tax 526-528, 566


Secondary Education


Building grants and loans 727


Comprehensive and Community Schools, costs 728-732, 844


Courses for secondary teachers 842


Ex-gratia pensions for widows and children 724-726


Prefabricated buildings suspense account 841 par 18


Preparatory College, Falcarragh, sale of lands 733-736, 819-840 par 32


Radio programmes 843


Secret Service


Page 64 (no question)


Social Welfare


Allied services 593


Blind pensions for children 594


Delay in payment of benefit 589


Investment return 590


Losses 592


Overpayment of assistance and benefits 583-584


Rates of benefit, difficulties from changes in 585-588


Unemployment assistance 591


State Laboratory


Page 64 (no question)


Stationery Office


Copying machines par 12


Office machinery and supplies 512


Printing contracts 515-518


Sales of publications 513, 514


Superannuation and Retired Allowances


Ex-gratia pensions for widows and children 156-161


Increases 164


Resigned and Dismissed RIC, pensions to 162


Transferred officers, repayment by British Government 163


Toibín, Mr. L.


Roinn na Gaeltachta 746-784


Taoiseach, Department of the


Information services 129, 130


Post Office services 127, 128


Transport and Power


Aer Rianta, grant for superannuation fund 168, 193


Aircraft accident 195


Airports


acquisition of land at Dublin 180-183


construction 184-185


radio equipment 187


revenue and expenditure 196, 197


transport of staff 186


Bord Fáilte 178, 179


Bottled gas, grants for 190


Coras Iompair Éireann


failure to pay interest on advances par 21


grants to 173-177


statutory approval for grant, lack of par 22


Equipment, stores and maintenance 172


Generating stations, improvement of roads to 191


Post Office services 170, 171


Royal National Lifeboat Institution 192


Rural electrification 189


Ships, investment grants for 166, 167, 169


Technical assistance 188


War risk insurance grant to air companies 194


Universities and Colleges and Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies


Limerick Institute of Higher Education 742, 744, 745 par 20


National College of Physical Education 743, 744


University College, Galway 745


Valuation and Ordnance Survey


Local authorities, fees paid by par 13


Maps 286-289


Printing machines 285


Staffing 280-284


Vocational Education


Regional Technical Colleges etc., costs 737, 738


Ward, Mr. A.


Courts 46-49


Garda Síochána 19-43


Garda Síochána (Excess Vote) 17, 18


Justice, Office of the Minister 3-16


Land Registry and Registry of Deeds 50, 51


Prisons 44, 45


White, Dr. J.


National Gallery 657-663