asked the Minister for Defence whether an experiment has been carried out at the Curragh bakery in the use of 99 per cent. Irish flour in the production of bread, and, if so, whether the personnel who ate this bread were able to detect any difference between it and the bread produced by the ordinary admixture of Irish and foreign wheats or suffered any ill effects from its consumption; and, further, if he will state the names of the millers who produced the flour and of the bakers so that their services may be availed of by the Minister for Industry and Commerce in a course of instruction to the other millers and bakers in this country, and thus avoid the expenditure of £3,000,000 on imported wheat.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Curragh Bakery Experiment.
An experiment in the production of bread from flour milled from 100 per cent. native wheat has been carried out at the bakery in the Curragh Training Camp, under the direction of the Institute for Industrial Research and Standards, and it is understood that a report has been furnished by the institute to the Minister for Industry and Commerce. The bread was issued in the normal way to personnel of the Dublin Barracks and the Curragh Training Camp. There were no comments on the bread.
The flour used was purchased from the millers who, at the time, were contractors for the supply of flour to the Curragh Training Camp.
Did the Minister eat a loaf of this bread himself?
I ate some of it.
It did not kill you?
No.