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Dáil Éireann debate -
Tuesday, 25 Jul 1933

Vol. 49 No. 5

Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Disposals Board's Sales.

asked the Minister for Lands and Fisheries if the Disposals Board, Beggars' Bush Barracks, sold upwards of nine tons of Courtaulds' artificial silk, which had been purchased for 3/6 per lb., for sevenpence per lb.; and if he can give any explanation of the circumstances attending this transaction?

The Deputy's question, I presume, relates to certain artificial silk yarns which were purchased by the Congested Districts Board for the making of a type of crochet button of which sales in the neighbourhood of £250,000 were made during the years 1917 to 1921. When the button-making machinery in Great Britain and elsewhere was again released for civil use on the termination of the European War the demand for these substitute buttons fell away and the yarns in question were surplus and were disposed of last year at the best price which they would fetch. The quantity of yarns to be disposed of was rather less than mentioned.

Arising out of the answer given by the Parliamentary Secretary, I want to say that I have not detected any reply to my question in that.

Can the Parliamentary Secretary say exactly how he proceeded with the disposal of this material? Was it thoroughly advertised?

It was made into ladies' stockings.

I presume tenders were invited.

Were they advertised?

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