I move:—
That the Dáil disapproves of the action of the Minister for Industry and Commerce in increasing the price of home produced wheat offals to that of imported offals, thus imposing, since September, 1954, an additional burden on pig feeders of over £600,000, to the detriment of the pig industry.
I gave notice that I proposed to raise the subject matter of a question on the Adjournment. I shall not do so, as this motion deals with the same matter.
I admit that Governments, when in straits for money, search around to see where they can find it and, at times, with very little scruple as to whose pockets they put their hands in; but I hold that a Government, who put their hands into the pockets of what I would describe as the extra industrious small farmer of this country—the man who is feeding the pig—and by increasing the price of his feeding stuffs deliberately robs him of his profit, deliberately makes his industry an uneconomic one, and deliberately drives out of production a large number of pig feeders, are not a Government this House should approve of.