asked the Minister for Industry and Commerce if he will state the registered address of the cross-Channel Shipping Conference; whether he has received any published reports of the conference; and whether he will make such reports available.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Cross-Channel Shipping Conference.
asked the Minister for Industry and Commerce whether C.I.E. is a party to the cross-Channel Shipping Conference.
asked the Minister for Industry and Commerce if he will give the dates and amounts of increases in freight charges on cross-Channel shipping since 1946.
With the permission of the Ceann Comhairle I propose to take Questions Nos. 9, 10 and 11 together. According to my information the address of the Irish and British Traffic Conference, to which I take it the Deputy refers, is 16 Westmoreland Street, Dublin. I have no official information as to the composition of the Traffic Conference, which is a private organisation, but I understand that C.I.E., in common with the other railway companies concerned and with certain shipping companies engaged in cross-Channel services, are members of the conference. I have received no published reports of the conference.
Particulars of increases in cross-Channel freight rates are published by the conference in the daily papers as and when they are made. As I have no statutory function in relation to shipping freight rates, I am not officially advised of alterations in such rates and I am not, therefore, in a position to give any authoritative information on the subject.