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Dáil Éireann debate -
Thursday, 9 Oct 1947

Vol. 108 No. 2

Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Quality of Bread Supply.

asked the Minister for Industry and Commerce if he is aware that white bread is universally obtainable in the City of Dublin while, in the country generally, bread of an inferior quality only is available; and if he will take steps to ensure that a more equitable distribution of imported flour and wheat is effected so that a more palatable quality of bread will be obtainable throughout the State.

I am aware that all bakers do not produce bread of the same quality. Variations in bread quality are not, however, due to inequitable distribution of imported flour and wheat, which are allocated on a uniform basis in such manner as to enable all flour millers to include the same proportions of imported flour and imported wheat in the bakers' flour being produced by them.

Would the Minister say if there is a definite quality of flour available for the City of Dublin which is not available for the rural areas?

No. The same quality of flour is available for bakers everywhere.

If that is so, why is it that the bread is inferior?

Because the bakers are not as good.

Is the Minister aware that the white bread being produced in Dublin is being produced by bakers who own flour mills and that the bakers down the country, many of whom could teach the Dublin bakers their business, cannot make white bread because they cannot get white flour because they do not own mills?

That is not true.

Those who own flour mills cod the Minister while those who do not own flour mills cannot cod him in the same way.

I do not know why Deputy Dillon has become so indignant at my remarks, but the statement is not true.

It is true and Deputy Dillon knows it because he is a baker.

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