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Obituary for Jimmy Moloney, Snr
Jimmy Moloney, Snr, passed away unexpectedly at home on May 28th 2019, at the age of 75, 8 months after the death his beloved wife of 54 years, Anne (nee Scully).
Jimmy was born in Listowel on April 2nd1944, the youngest of three children of Dan (D.J.) Moloney (Lyreacrompane) and Margaret Moloney (née O Connor, of Springmount, Duagh). His earliest years were spent in the Bridge Road, Listowel. In 1948, his parents bought and restored Gurtenard House in which he grew up, brought up his own family and lived until 2006.
As the younger brother, it was often said his more outgoing older sisters, Kay and Marie, overshadowed him. Quite the contrary; clever and reserved, Jimmy simply watched, observed, and quietly got his point across in his own gentle way.
He was educated in the Boys’ School and St. Michael's College, Listowel and Newbridge College, Co.Kildare later studying commerce at University College Cork and engineering at Bolton St. College, Dublin.
At the age of 16, he spent a summer in Ventry to advance his Irish language skills at the first Irish college of its kind in the Corca Dhuibhne Gaeltacht. It is questionable whether his Irish improved, however it was there that he met Anne Scully (also 16, daughter of Dr. Paddy Scully, Dingle). His courting strategies included cycling his bicycle along the round topped stone wall opposite Paidi OSé’s family home and “borrowing” cars from Moloney’s Garage to meet Anne in Tralee for dances at the Brandon Hotel.
Anne and Jimmy had a Christmas wedding at Muckross Church, Killarney on 29thDecember 1965, both aged just 21.They honeymooned in London and the south of Spain, where they would return many times. They lived at Gurtenard House and Jimmy successfully ran Moloney’s Garage in Market Street and William Street, Listowel until the mid-1980s.
Moloney’s Garage, a Main Ford Dealership, had been founded in 1945 by his father, D.J., and was a thriving business and employer in the town for many decades. At a time when opportunities for school leavers in North Kerry would have been few, scores of young trainees arrived at Moloney’s Garage as apprentice mechanics, pump attendants, panel beaters, accountants and secretaries and learned their craft in their own hometown. The regard in which Jimmy and D.J. were held was deeply felt by the Moloney family at Jimmy’s funeral where dozens of former employees and colleagues from years gone by paid their respects and told stories of a wonderful workplace and how they “got their start” at Moloney’s.
Not surprisingly, he was an avid fan of motor sports in all its forms. A founder member of Kerry Motor Club and its secretary for much of the 1970s, Jimmy was an accomplished rally driver in his own right, competing in rallies all over Ireland and the UK. He was a talented mechanic and restored numerous vintage and veteran cars as well as being an early and enthusiastic member of the Kingdom Veteran and Vintage Car club founded in 1979. The club, which celebrates its 40thAnniversary this year, organised veteran and vintage car runs throughout the county and beyond, most notably the Annual Ring of Kerry run. There are many accounts from those times of blown gaskets, runaway cars, golf clubhouses being mistaken for hotels and many other (mis) adventures. In 2010 he was awarded the Automobile Association’s commemorative centenary award as Kerry’s longest serving member as well as having led numerous emergency rescues to car crash sites and breakdowns throughout the county for the association.
Anne and Jimmy successfully ran Gurtenard House as a Bed and Breakfast for over 20 years from the 1980s until their retirement to Cherry Tree Drive in 2006. Like Gurtenard House, the door in Cherry Tree Drive was always open and friends and family alike were welcomed for a chat and the inevitable glass (or more) of wine.
Jimmy could fix anything and was as comfortable up a ladder as under the bonnet of a car. One of his many hobbies was woodturning, reflected in his numerous intricate sculptures and woodcarvings. An innovative problem solver, his many inventions included some unusual security and surveillance systems as well as a number of quite peculiar washing machines, ironing contraptions and pest deterrents.
Widely read and widely travelled, Jimmy had been planning a tour of Holland, Germany, France and Switzerland at the time of his death, one of the highlights of which was to be a high-speed drive on the German autobahns with his son-in-law, Frank.
On the Sunday evening before his passing, he had attended the count of the recent County Council elections and proudly saw his youngest son, Jimmy re-elected to Kerry County Council to represent Listowel and Fianna Fáil.
Jimmy Snr died as he had lived, quietly and without fuss. He will be sadly missed by his sisters Kay and Marie, sons Dan, Conor and Jimmy, daughter Maeve, grandsons Isaac, Oscar, Max and Tom, daughter-in-law Una, son-in-law Frank and his wide network of relatives and friends.
Dan J Moloney and More Questions in Parliment.
Dan J Moloney TD
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Wednesday, 24 April 1957
Mr. Moloney: asked the Minister for Industry and Commerce if, in view of the satisfactory result of the initial canvass carried out in the Rathea-Lyreacrompane areas of North Kerry, he will state the cause of the delay in extending the rural electrification scheme to these areas, and how soon they may expect to be connected.
Mr. S. Lemass: I am informed by the E.S.B. that the Rathea area, which includes Lyreacrompane, has been considered for selection by the board on a number of occasions but has not so far been selected as the returns did not compare favourably with those for other areas awaiting development in the board's Tralee district. The area will be reconsidered on future occasions but the board is not at present in a position to say when it will be selected for development.
Mr. Moloney: asked the Minister for Finance if he is aware of the grave dissatisfaction which exists among a number of landowners in Ennismore, Listowel, County Kerry, because of the failure of the Office of Public Works to have a new roadway constructed to replace that on the bank of the River Feale at Ennismore which was covered by spoil during the course of operations on the Feale Drainage Scheme; and if he proposes to take any action in the matter.
Parliamentary Secretary to Minister for Finance (Mr. Beegan): A new roadway has, in fact, been constructed under the Feale Drainage Scheme in replacement of the roadway referred to in the question. I am advised that it is at least as good as the roadway which it has replaced.
Mr. Moloney: asked the Minister for Local Government if his attention has been drawn to an appeal lodged with his Department some months ago against the Kerry County Council's failure to complete satisfactorily repairs to Mr. Louis Keating's cottage at Ballyline, Ballylongford, County Kerry; and if, in view of the special circumstances of this case, he will now instruct the housing authority concerned to undertake the repairs demanded, and to have them completed without delay.
Mr. Smith: The cottage to which the Deputy refers was vested in the tenant on the 1st June, 1953. I have no power to intervene on his behalf at this stage. The tenant-purchaser was informed, accordingly, by the Department's letter of 25th September last.
Mr. Moloney: asked the Minister for Lands if, in view of the demand for the relief of congestion by uneconomic land holders in North Kerry, the Land Commission will increase for the next few years the annual quota of holdings available in other counties for the settlement of applicants from North Kerry who are agreeable to vacate their existing holdings, which would thus become available for local distribution among affected uneconomic holders.
Mr. Childers: The exact number of new holdings reserved by the Land Commission for allotment to migrants is liable to vary each year. As the number of applicants by far exceeds the supply of holdings available, the claims of all counties where congestion prevails, including County Kerry, must be considered in competition with each other before allocation of holdings takes place. In selecting suitable migrants from congested areas, the main determining factor is the usefulness of the applicant's existing lands towards the relief of local congestion.
[136] Land Commission records are not kept on a basis of constituency areas. I find, however, that, in the case of County Kerry as a whole, the number of migrants taken from the county since 1950 is 43. It is not possible at this stage to forecast how many holdings for migrants will become available for disposal in the course of the next few years but the needs of County Kerry applicants will continue to receive full consideration.
Minister for Lands (Mr. Childers):
Snippet of speech Wednesday, 24 April 1957
That a sum not exceeding £1,170,630 be granted to complete the sum necessary to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1958, 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; No. 26 of 1939; No. 12 of 1946; No. [151] 25 of 1949; No. 16 of 1950; No. 18 of 1953; and No. 21 of 1954).
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As regards the general work of the Land Commission, progress continues to be made in the efforts to complete tenanted land purchase. Of 111,000 tenanted holdings which vested in the Land Commission since 1923, only some 13,000 now await vesting in the tenants. These constitute the really difficult residue of tenanted holdings. The revesting of tenanted land has now been completed in Counties Carlow and Longford and may be regarded [154] as substantially concluded in the following ten additional counties, viz., Cavan, Kildare, Kilkenny, Laois, Limerick, Louth, Meath, Monaghan, Wexford and Wicklow. Over 11,000 of the tenanted holdings which remain outstanding for vesting are situated in the congested districts where existing policy requires the rearrangement by the Land Commission of intermixed and rundale holdings into compact and, as far as possible, economic units as a necessary pre-requisite to vesting. In addition, some 5,000 holdings being the current residue of the estates of the former Congested Districts Board, are in a similar condition.
As regards the land-settlement operations of the past year, the provisional returns show that the total area acquired, resumed or taken over was 27,646 acres, while an area of 27,883 acres was distributed amongst 1,450 allottees, who thereby had their standard of living improved. In addition, 860 families were provided with rights of turbary. Some 500 holdings, the bulk of which are situated in the western counties, were rearranged during the year. Expenditure on buildings, including the provision of 198 new dwellinghouses, amounted to over £240,000. On the vesting side, close on 7,000 properties consisting of holdings, parcels and rights of turbary were vested in tenants and allottees.
The position as regards collection of annuities is highly satisfactory. Arrears outstanding at the 31st March, 1957, amounted to £142,562 or approximately a quarter of 1 per cent. of the total amount collectable since 1933. The efficiency of the collection organisation may be gauged from the fact that the total cost of collection and ancillary work—including provision for overhead expenses, postage, etc. —works out at about 5 per cent. of the amount collected, notwithstanding that annuities generally were halved in 1933 and remain unchanged at a low level. Prompt payment of amount due to the Land Commission is to be encouraged as a contribution towards reduction of the cost of administration.
Moloney, Daniel J.
Thursday, 14 December 1961
Turf Development Bill
Question proposed: “That the Bill be now read a Second Time.”
Minister for Industry and Commerce (Mr. J. Lynch): The Minister for Transport and Power has asked me to take the Second Stage of this Bill on his behalf. The main object of the Bill is to provide an extra £5,000,000 capital for Bord na Móna. Under the Turf Development Acts, 1946 to 1959, Bord na Móna may borrow up to £19,000,000 for the performance of their functions, exclusive of the housing of their servants. The Board may obtain capital up to this amount by way of advances from the Minister for Finance or by the creation of stock or other forms of security. In the exercise of these powers the Board have to-date borrowed a total of £18,991,472 of which £750,000 was obtained from Messrs. Arthur Guinness and £52,000 from the Board's own Superannuation Funds, the balance being provided by the State.
Bord na Móna have already repaid to the Central Fund a sum of £554,000 in respect of assets taken over from the Turf Development Board Ltd. Repayment with interest of advances, [19] amounting to £9,637,557 will be completed on 1st April, 1985 and repayment of the remaining advances will commence when the bogs on which the capital is being invested, come into production.
It is the policy of the Government that all bogs which are economically usable for electricity generation shall be developed and the main output of Bord na Móna is determined by the requirements of peat for this purpose. Development of a bog to the production stage requires a period of five years, more or less. Already five peat-fired electricity stations with an aggregate capacity of 185 megawatts have been commissioned. There are also four 5 megawatt stations using hand-won turf. The future programme of the Electricity Supply Board provides for the commissioning of additional peat-fired plant to a total capacity of 242.5 megawatts by 1968/69. On the completion of this programme a total of 447.5 megawatts of generating plant will be peat-fired.
At the 31st March, 1961, peat-fired stations represented 205 megawatts of the total generating capacity of 723.5 megawatts, that is to say about 28%. In the year ended 31st March, 1961, 80% of electricity generated came from native resources and just over 40% of this native production came from peat-fired stations.
The programme of peat-fired generating plant which I have outlined extends to 1968/69 and represents the maximum foreseeable bog development for electricity generation. Thereafter peat-fired generation capacity will represent a gradually diminishing proportion of total capacity.
To meet the requirements of the electricity generating plant construction programme up to 1968/69, Bord na Móna are developing or will develop additional areas of bog in the Boora, Derrygreenagh, Bangor-Erris, Garryduff and Longford groups. The Blackwater bog, which has been reserved for the nitrogenous fertiliser project, is now available to provide the milled peat for a 40 megawatt station planned for Shannonbridge in 1964/65. [20] The bog development programme provides, ultimately, for an annual production for electricity generation of 580,000 tons of sod peat and 2,500,000 tons of milled peat. In addition to their output for electricity generation Bord na Móna also produced some 320,000 tons of sod peat for general consumption. Other aspects of their activities are the production of peat briquettes for domestic and industrial consumption and peat moss. Capacity for briquettes is 250,000 tons per annum requiring 750,000 tons of milled peat. The annual production of peat moss is at present about 250,000 bales, mostly for export. The number of persons employed by the Board, in all grades, amounts to about 7,000 at peak.
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In regard to the chimney trouble, I can say, first of all, that the sales of briquettes are mounting and mounting every year. Last year, they were utterly unable to supply the demand. This year they are going to produce 250,000 tons. A lively demand is there. In the eastern counties of Ireland, they found that 41 per cent. of all the households were using turf briquettes in one form or another sometime or other in the year for wholly turf-fired purposes.
D J Moloney
I understand from people competent to give an opinion that there are suitable bogs in Munster particularly, and in the western area also. Those bogs should be developed and there should be at least one manufacturing unit for briquettes in every province.
Coal in Rathea Thursday, 29 May 1958
Moloney TD
Mr. Moloney: asked the Minister for Industry and Commerce whether he is aware that a coal seam is believed to exist in the Rathee Mountcoal area, North Kerry; and if a comprehensive geological survey of the area will be made as soon as possible with a view to ascertaining whether coal deposits suitable for commercial exploitation exist there.
Minister for Industry and Commerce (Mr. S. Lemass): I am advised that there is a coal seam in the area, but that, owing to its narrowness, it is unlikely that it could be worked economically. Adequate geological information is already available in regard to these coal deposits and will be supplied by the Geological Survey Office to anyone who may be interested.
REACTOR COWS
Wednesday, 28 January 1959
Mr. Moloney: asked the Minister for Agriculture if he will state the number of reactor cows purchased in County Kerry under the bovine tuberculosis clearance scheme to the nearest available date, and the total cost of the purchases.
Minister for Finance (Dr. Ryan) (for Minister for Agriculture): The number of reactor cows purchased in County Kerry up to 24th January, 1959, was 12,164 and the total cost of these purchases was £449,153.
Mr. Sweetman: Less than £40 a cow.
Wednesday, 23 April 1958
INCOME TAX
Mr. Moloney: asked the Minister for Finance if he will state for each of the last five financial years (1) the total amounts collected in (a) income-tax under schedules A, B, C, D and E, (b) surtax and (c) corporation profits tax; (2) the number of taxpayers (persons, firms or companies as the case may be) who have contributed each year to each amount of tax collected, and (3) the amount of arrears of tax outstanding under each of the headings specified at the end of each of the financial years in question.
Mr. MacEntee: Some of the information for which the Deputy asks is not yet available in respect of the latest financial years. The information available, however, is contained in a statement which, with the permission of the Ceann Comhairle, I propose to circulate in the Official Report.
Following is the statement:—
[593][594] (1) Tax Collected
(a) Income-Tax (b) Surtax (c) Corporation Profits Tax
£ £ £
1953-54 20,214,828 2,061,833 2,596,284
1954-55 21,344,749 2,133,993 2,943,897
1955-56 22,654,808 2,139,139 3,200,452
1956-57 22,042,395 2,049,754 3,075,085
1957-58 23,010,083 2,193,191 2,930,254
(2) Estimated number of Taxpayers
Income-Tax Surtax
1953-54 213,500* 8,700
1954-55 176,500* 9,000
1955-56 175,000* 9,400
* This figure includes an estimate of 6,500 in respect of companies chargeable to Income-Tax.
Corporation Profits Tax: It is estimated that there were about 1,750 companies liable to Corporation Profits Tax in respect of each of the years 1953-54 to 1955-56 inclusive.
Material on which estimates for 1956-57 and 1957-58 could be based is not yet available.
(3) Tax outstanding
As at For all years up to and including Income-Tax Surtax Corporation Profits Tax
£ £ £
*31-3-54 1952-53 10,395,142 2,648,122 516,055
*31-3-55 1953-54 11,702,576 3,049,935 523,836
*31-3-56 1954-55 11,711,555 3,268,400 485,784
*31-3-57 1955-56 10,773,970 3,314,237 519,242
*31-3-58 1956-57 Not yet available.
NOTE: Particulars of Income-Tax outstanding are compiled as at the 1st June each year, and the corresponding dates for Income-Tax outstanding are, therefore, 1-6-54, 1-6-55, 1-6-56, 1-6-57 and 1-6-58 respectively.
Budget Wednesday, 26 April 1961
Mr. Moloney: The last speaker said many members of the Fianna Fáil back bench were keenly disappointed with this Budget. As a back bencher of the Fianna Fáil Party, I want to say that I am not disappointed with the Budget at all. In fact, I think the Budget can truly be described, as the Minister said in his speech, as a good Budget.
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Some of us feel that the dissolution was influenced in no small way by the fact that the Government would have had to impose possibly £7 million or £8 million additional taxation at that time. In view of their set-up, perhaps it was not possible to get a majority to agree to this. We do know they would have had to impose additional taxation or remove the food subsidies.
Thursday, 9 June 1960
Mr. Moloney: asked the Minister for Health if he has received from Kerry County Council alternative proposals with regard to the future of St. Joseph's Hospital, Listowel, since his reply of 25th May; and, if so, the nature of these proposals; and which of them he proposes to sanction.
Dr. Ryan: Kerry County Council has put forward a proposal that St. Joseph's Hospital, Listowel, should be used as a geriatric unit which would relieve overcrowding in the Mental Hospital, Killarney and the County Home, Killarney.
[896] The proposal was received in my Department on 8th instant and is under examination.
Mr. Moloney: May I ask that the proposal be examined and disposed of as quickly as possible as there is a permanent staff at present unemployed in a particular hospital awaiting a decision from the Minister?
Dr. Ryan: I shall pass that on to the Minister.
Tuesday, 10 June 1958
Mr. Finucane: asked the Minister for Industry and Commerce whether he has received any proposals from the Shannon Estuary Company, Limited, which has been formed with a view to developing the Shannon Estuary as a port and industrial area; if he will state the nature of the proposals; and whether it is proposed to facilitate the company by a contribution from public funds.
Mr. Moloney: and Mr. Collins asked the Minister for Industry and Commerce if his attention has been drawn to an announcement regarding the formation of a private limited liability company called the Shannon Estuary Company, Limited; and, if so, if he will state the names and addresses of the persons or interested parties who are forming the company and its declared aims and objectives; what encouragement, [1298] if any, has been given at departmental level to the promoters which may have influenced them to set up the company; and if he is in a position now, on the information at present at his disposal, to say what the possibilities are of developing the Shannon Estuary as a free port and industrial area.
Mr. S. Lemass: With the permission of the Ceann Comhairle, I propose to take Questions Nos. 5 and 6 together.
I have seen the Press announcement referred to and I received last week a communication from the Shannon Estuary Company, Limited, regarding their proposals for developing the Shannon Estuary. The proposals are under consideration in my Department.
Information regarding the constitution of the company and its aims and objectives can be obtained from the Companies Registration Office, Dublin Castle.
Wednesday, 7 May 1958
Mr. Moloney: asked the Minister for Lands whether he is aware that there is acute congestion in many rural areas in County Kerry; and, if so, what steps the Land Commission are prepared to take with a view to alleviating the position.
Minister for Justice (Mr. K. Boland) (for the Minister for Lands): The Land Commission are taking all practicable steps towards the relief of congestion in County Kerry as elsewhere. For this purpose an area of about 560 acres was taken over in the county during the year ended 31st March, 1958, and, at that date, proceedings were in progress for the acquisition or resumption of a further 700 acres approximately. Last year, an area of about 1,100 acres was allotted by the Land Commission in County Kerry, this land being devoted almost exclusively to the relief of congestion by way of enlargement and rearrangement.
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ATHEA
Thursday, 13 May 1948
Mr. Keyes: asked the Minister for Lands whether he will consider having the lands of Mr. Patrick R. Woulfe, Keale, Athea, County Limerick, inspected with a view to acquisiton for distribution amongst the uneconomic holders and landless men in this heavily-congested area.
Minister for Lands (Mr. Blowick): The Land Commission have had under consideration the question of the lands at Keale, Athea, County Limerick, owned by Mr. Patrick Woulfe. They have decided to take no action in the matter.
Mr. Keyes: asked the Minister for lands whether he will consider having the lands of Messrs. William and Michael Cleary, Templeathea, Athea, County Limerick, inspected with a view to division for the relief of congestion in the area.
Mr. Blowick: The Deputy's representations regarding resumption of the holdings in question have been noted for early consideration.
POST Abbeyfeale
Friday, 22 February 1924
PADRAIG O hOGAIN (Luimneach): asked the Postmaster-General whether he is aware that the postal delivery in the Abbeyfeale district is seriously hampering the following creameries in the sale of their butter, viz., Athea, Brosna, Fealebridge, Knocknagoshel, Meenahila, Mount Collins, and Knockchapel; whether their letters are being delivered since last October to them at noon on a day later than was previously the case, and whether he will have the old deliveries restored in those districts.
[1339]Mr. WALSH: The delay in the postal deliveries in the Abbeyfeale district is due to the absence of suitable train services. The Great Southern and Western Railway Company have, however, given notice of their intention to provide an early morning train to Abbeyfeale within the next few weeks, and arrangements are being made for a corresponding improvement in the mail services to take place simultaneously.
Satisfactory delivery arrangements are in operation in the Athea area, which is served from Ardagh, and is not affected by the position at Abbeyfeale.
Mr. HOGAN: Would the Minister take into consideration the question of improving the delivery of the English mails? In that area there is a turnover of £160,000 a year for butter. A letter posted in England on Monday is not received in Newcastle-West until Wednesday or Thursday. It is very hard to do business with such a service.
Milk to DUBLIN
Wednesday, 15 May 1940
Mr. O'Donovan: asked the Minister for Agriculture if he will state the name and location of each creamery which failed or refused to respond to the Government requisition regarding the milk supply to Dublin during the period of the milk strike in November, 1939; if any of these creameries has been penalised as a result of this failure or refusal, and, if so, if he will state the amount of the fine in each case.
Athea Co-operative Creamery, Ltd., Athea, Co. Limerick £35-12-4
ESB
Wednesday, 25 November 1953
Mr. J.J. Collins: asked the Minister for Industry and Commerce if he will state when it is proposed to extend rural electrification to the following districts: Mountcollins, Athea and Ardagh, County Limerick.
Mr. Lemass: I am informed by the E.S.B. that the Mountcollins and Athea areas and also the Rathreigh area, which includes Ardagh, have been considered by the board on a number of occasions for development under the rural electrification scheme but have not so far been selected. These areas will be considered again in due course, but I am not in a position to state when development is likely to take place.
Tuesday, 28 June 1983
Land Commission
Mr. Noonan: (Limerick West) asked the Minister for Agriculture the acreage of land in the process of being [527] acquired by the Land Commission in County Limerick; the name and address of each estate; the acreage in each estate; and when it is likely to have the acquisitions concluded.
Hectares
Reps. John Leahy, Decd. Gortnagrass and Toonadoo, Athea 85
Reps. Fllen Quinn, Decd. Glensharrold, Carrigkerry 29
Reps. Thomas Quinn, Decd. Glensharrold, Carrigkerry 14
Pasteurizer
Thursday, 26 July 1956
Mr. Moher: asked the Minister for Agriculture if he will state in respect of each of the Counties Cork, Limerick, Tipperary, Kerry and Waterford (a) the registered trade name of each creamery, (b) the number of branches operated by each, (c) the number of pasteurisers installed by each registered creamery, and (d) the number of applications for grants for the installation of pasteurisers listed by each central creamery.
As to (d) the number of applications for grants for the installation of skim milk pasteurisation plants received by my Department to date from creamery proprietors in the counties referred to [1820] is:—Cork, 40; Limerick, 18; Tipperary, 4; Kerry, nil, and Waterford, 4.
TRAIN
Wednesday, 29 October 1952
Mr. Finucane: asked the Minister for Industry and Commerce if, in view of the great hardship that would otherwise be caused, and for the general benefit of the people and farmers of the district, he will have the decision to close the railway from Tralee to Dingle reviewed.
Mr. Lemass: The Minister for Industry and Commerce has now no function in regard to the closing of Córas Iompair Éireann branch lines. By the Transport Act, 1950, the functions formerly exercised by him in this regard were transferred to the Transport Tribunal established by that Act. The decision of this tribunal, on the application made by Córas Iompair Éireann for orders to authorise the permanent discontinuance of merchandise train services between Tralee and Dingle, will be final, and I have no powers under the Act to review it.
BUTTER imports
Wednesday, 29 October 1952
Mr. Rooney: asked the Taoiseach if he will state the quantity and value of creamery butter imported to date since 13th June, 1951.
Parliamentary Secretary to the Taoiseach (Donnchadh Ó Briain): The imports of butter from the 13th June, 1951 to the 30th September, 1952, were 119,999 cwt. valued at £2,255,817. The figures for creamery butter are not separately available as statistics of imports are compiled according to the official import list and this list does not provide a heading for creamery butter.
BULGARIA
Thursday, 23 October 1952
Mr. S. Brady: asked the Minister for External Affairs whether he will express the abhorrence of the Irish people at the sentences of death and imprisonment passed by the Bulgarian court on Bishop Bossilikoff and a number of clergy and whether he has made a protest to the Bulgarian Government or proposes to do so.
Dr. Ryan: I learned with the deepest concern of the sentences of death passed by the Communist court in [253] Sofia on the Most Reverend Dr. Bossilikoff and three priests, as well as the sentences of imprisonment on 24 other ecclesiastics.
DRINK TAX
Thursday, 23 October 1952
Dr. Esmonde: asked the Minister for Finance if he will state the consumption of standard barrels of beer for the periods of May, June and July, 1952, and the amount for the same periods in 1951.
Mr. MacEntee: Particulars of the consumption of beer are not available, but the net quantities upon which duty is paid may be taken as an approximate guide thereto. The net quantities in terms of standard barrels upon which [214] duty was paid in the months mentioned by the Deputy were as follows:—
Month 1951 1952
May 73,434 41,993
June 83,079 85,472
July 80,062 76,756
Dr. Esmonde: Does the Minister not consider, as a result of the figures he has just given, that in as far as it is relevant to the raising of tax, the recent impositions on beer and stout were, to say the least of it, injudicious?
Mr. MacEntee: Not at all. Wait until the Deputy sees the results at the end of the year.
Mr. O. Flanagan: This could be what has the Minister in mourning to-day in the House.
Mr. Dillon: Is the Minister for Finance aware that Messrs. Arthur Guinness issued a circular to farmers throughout the barley-growing areas, warning them that the brewery's requirements of malting barley next year will be from 30 to 40 per cent. less than in 1952?
AMERICAN Costs
Wednesday, 22 October 1952
Mr. Hickey: asked the Minister for Industry and Commerce if he will state the total amount of money paid by the Government, including travelling expenses, for the team of American experts who were engaged by Córas Tráchtála Teoranta to advise on the subject of dollar exports.
[12]Mr. Lemass: All payments in respect of the American experts engaged by Córas Tráchtála have not yet been made, but it is expected that the total cost to the State will be about £25,000.
Wednesday, 8 April 1959
BULLS
Mr. O'Donnell: asked the Minister for Agriculture if he will state the names and addresses of all parties to whom bulls have been allocated by his Department for the year ended 31st March, 1959, and the breed and price of each bull so allocated.
Mr. Childers: As the reply is in the form of a tabular statement. I propose, with your permission, a Cheann Comhairle, to circulate it with the Official Report.
Following is the statement:—
BULLS ALLOCATED BY THE DEPARTMENT DURING THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH, 1959.
LEASED BULLS
Shorthorn Bull Jack Leahy Knockanure £420
Special Dairy Bull for Cow testing.
Edward Carmody, Beale, Asdee, Ballylongford, County Kerry cost £222.
Ml. Dillon, Behenaugh, Knocknagoshel, County Kerry do. 136 10 0
Ml. Nolan, Scalp, Brosna, County Kerry do. 94 10 0
Patk. Doran, Lyreacrompane, Listowel, County Kerry do. 120 15 0
David Dillon, Behins, Listowel, County Kerry do. 105 0 0
John Hayes, Gortnasminch, Listowel, County Kerry do. 73 10 0
Thos. Dillane, Kiltean, Lisselton, County Kerry do. 105 0 0
John R. Kissane, Tullahinell, Ballylongford, County Kerry
BLIND
Thursday, 15 November 1956
Mr. Palmer: asked the Minister for Social Welfare if he will state in respect of County Kerry (a) the number of persons in receipt of blind pensions, and (b) the number of blind persons who are not in receipt of any benefits; and if he will ask the local authority to evolve a scheme for the welfare of blind persons so that they may be cared for in reasonable comfort either in their own homes or elsewhere.
Minister for Social Welfare (Mr. Corish): At the 28th December, 1955, the latest date for which such statistics are available, there were 526 persons in County Kerry in receipt of pensions, as blind persons, under the Old Age Pensions Acts. There are no data available as to the number of blind persons in the county who are not in receipt of any benefit. As regards the latter part of the Deputy's question the local authority already operates a scheme for the welfare of the blind, which provides for the payment of weekly cash allowances to blind persons living in their own homes or in lodgings and also for the maintenance of blind persons in approved institutions.
Pensions
Wednesday, 23 May 1962
Mr. T. Lynch: I was very young at the time. I took no part in anything, but I saw a good deal. Much to my surprise, in the years that followed, I saw people get pensions and special allowances. I made inquiries from prominent IRA men and I found that they were far more surprised than I was. L
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We find that 56,000 persons were awarded military service medals. The figures are there. The granting of these medals was a very loose kind of business. There was ample proof of that in Kerry. A number of military service medals were awarded, in recent years, mark you, to people in Kerry. After investigation, a great many of these medals had to be returned to the Department of Defence. The recipients of them had no right to them. A mistake was made in Kerry in giving medals to people who had no right or title to them. I ask the Minister to think seriously about whether a great many other people got medals who had no right to them.
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I discovered only this afternoon that five-sixths of those in receipt of military service pensions have less than 15/- a week.
DEFENCE Pension
Wednesday, 26 April 1944
Minister for Defence (Mr. Traynor): I move:—
That a sum not exceeding £377,600, be granted to complete the sum necessary to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending the 31st day of March, 1945, 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.”
The decrease of £65,407 in the Army Pensions Vote for the financial year 1944-45 is mainly due to a decrease in the number of awards under the Military [1576] Service Pensions Act, 1934, partly offset by an increase due to the operation of the Army Pensions Act, 1943. The chief service of the Vote for Army pensions is the payment of pensions and gratuities under the authority of various Acts passed since 1923 by the Oireachtas, and, of the total Vote of £566,300, no less a sum than £558,228 nett is required to defray the cost of pensions and gratuities which are expected to fall for payment during the financial year 1944-45.
KISSANE
Friday, 24 June 1949
Mr. Kissane: Before the Dáil adjourned last night I was referring to the question of unemployment. I gave the figure for unemployment as being nearly 60,000. I also selected the figure for the corresponding period in 1947. I realise that the Employment Period Order has to be taken into account, and so the figures are not really comparable. [1409] However, everyone must agree that 60,000 unemployed in the country to-day present a problem for the Minister and the Government that t
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Mr. Kissane: While this Commission on Emigration has been holding meetings in Dublin and allegedly trying to find a solution for the problem of [1411] emigration, the people are flocking from the country in thousands. During 1948 no fewer than 40,000 permits were issued to people leaving this country.
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Mr. Kissane: Is it not a fact that both employers and employees have to pay 6d. per week more than they did before for unemployment insurance and national health benefits?
Mulcahy
Wednesday, 3 April 1935
He need only look around him to see the type of speeches made by various members of his Party and the various units of his organisation to see that in the rest of the country some kind of an answer is wanted. In February last, the Fianna Fáil Executive in Kerry devoted some attention to the Army, and in a rather elaborate statement issued by it and published in the Irish Press of February 8th, they said:
“Instead of `perpetuating and popularising the same Free State Army of 1922-23,' the Government has proceeded to displace it by a new Volunteer Army, built on a new system and with a predominantly new personnel. The latter are young men who were not involved in the civil war. Their inclusion is a more commendable step towards the noble objective of ending the legacy of hatred and disunion left by the civil war.”
Bit of speech
Wednesday, 30 March 1949
Captain Giles
I am one of those who went through the rigours of the Anglo-Irish war and I suffered imprisonment. I know the Army inside and out. I was in the Army and in the Republican movement. I am satisfied that we fooled the people right through from 1916 to 1921. We hear a great deal about the sacrifice made in 1916. I agree it was a great and heroic sacrifice. The men who made the supreme sacrifice should be honoured forever more, but I am satisfied that so far as military power is concerned it was only a squabble; it was only an attempt to resurrect the people.
It was the same from 1919 to 1921. Had it not been for half-a-dozen militant types of men, one here and there or three or four scattered throughout the country, the I.R.A. would have been broken up in the first six months. The heroic sacrifices of a [1992] few men—a Dan Breen, a Seán MacEoin, a Mick Collins and a Tom Barry, a few scattered here and there —inspired the others. By their efforts and their sacrifices they inspired a few hundred men here and there to respond to the call, but as far as fighting was concerned, with the exception of the City of Dublin and, perhaps, Cork, Tipperary and Kerry, the whole thing was just a complete fiasco, and I speak as one who comes from the Midlands and who was out in that fight. We had true and tried men to carry on, but to think it was a big fight and that we were out night and day, up to our necks fighting, is the greatest of rot.