asked the Minister for Agriculture whether, in view of the fact that owing to low production the cost of running Dingle Creamery and collecting milk is high, he will take steps to provide that the Dairy Disposal Company, Limited, in Dingle, is subsidised so as to enable them to pay to their milk suppliers a price equal to the price paid for milk by the other creameries in the area.
Written Answers. - Dingle Milk Price.
Under the present system of butter subsidisation, the same rate of production allowance on butter is paid to all creameries, but for economic reasons it is not practicable for different creameries to pay the same basic price for milk. I am not prepared to alter this system in any individual case, as to do so would only open the door to the payment of differential rates of production allowance generally, which, apart from being most undesirable in principle, would in practice prove unworkable.