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Restrictive Business Practices in Ireland: Legislation and Administration

2. In the 1920's, when the new state was recovering from a prolonged period of war and civil strife, the industrial sector which it inherited was so small as to be verging on the insignificant. Emigration was steadily reducing the population. Efforts were concentrated at first on reconstruction, and later on agriculture and on infra-structural development, particularly electricity, roads and housing, but a beginning was made in industrialisation by a careful policy of selective tariff protection. In the early 1930's a new Government embarked on an intensive policy of industrialisation aimed at supplying the home market with the aid of substantial tariff and quantitative protection. By the end of the 1930's it had achieved a substantial measure of success. In the circumstances of the time, with a world recession and the growth of barriers to international trade, this was perhaps the only viable policy. During the period of the Second World War the recently established industries proved useful in maintaining minimum supplies of many commodities, but shortages and rationing of many imported consumer goods and raw materials were inevitable. To facilitate allocation and rationing, the services of associations of traders and manufacturers were used by