asked the Minister for Agriculture if he proposes to increase the bounty paid to exporters of dead poultry in order to counteract the action of the British Government in imposing a further duty of 3d. per lb. on all dead poultry landed in Great Britain.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Bounty on Poultry.
The British additional import duties (No. 19) Order, 1933, under which an ad valorem duty of 10 per cent. on dead poultry imported has been decreased to 3d. per lb. came into operation on the 15th instant, and no information is yet available as to the effect of that Order on prices. The object of the Order is, I understand, to increase the prices for dead poultry in the United Kingdom, and if this object be achieved, exporters from this country should obtain an increase in price as an offset to the additional duty.
It is not, therefore, proposed at present to vary the existing rate of bounty on exports of dead poultry from the Saorstát.