asked the Minister for Agriculture whether he intends to take steps to relieve dairy farmers on whom a liability of £3 per cow was imposed by the Creamery Act, 1928, on their compulsory transfer to a co-operative creamery society of at least a portion of that liability.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Farmers and Creamery Act.
I am not prepared to adopt the course suggested by the Deputy.
Mr. Ryan
May I ask the Minister whether he has any intention of fulfilling the promises he made to the transferred suppliers in January, 1932?
I have fulfilled that promise about ten times over.
Mr. Ryan
May I read an extract from your letter to these transferred suppliers?
The Deputy may not read a letter dating back to 1932.
Mr. Ryan
The Minister has stated that these people had a grievance——
Of course, they had.
Mr. Ryan
That they had a grievance under the Act and that he would remedy it. I think I might read the extract, which is very short.
Not an extract from a letter written five years ago.
Mr. Ryan
Then, may I ask the Minister if he has any intention of implementing his promise to a deputation from Thurles in 1934 about a new creamery Bill to remedy all those grievances?
I do not remember that.