asked the Minister for Agriculture if he will state the total quantity of native wheat of last year's crop that is still kept in storage.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Wheat and Oats in Storage.
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Practically all the millable wheat of the 1958 crop has been used by millers. Approximately 50,000 tons of Class II wheat of the 1958 crop are still held in storage on behalf of An Bord Gráin. Of this quantity, approximately 30,000 tons are earmarked for sale.
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asked the Minister for Agriculture if he will state the total quantity of home-grown oats of last year's crop that is still kept in storage.
As the marketing of oats is not controlled, details of the quantities held in storage are not available, but my information is that the quantities are small.
Does it not appear to be rather haywire policy to allow oats to be imported to the value of about £13,000, as Deputy Manley said recently when, in fact, in the daily papers they are offering good feeding oats for sale?
Any oats we have here have been admitted by those who own them not to be of a class that would satisfy the requirements of those in respect of whom licences were given to import oats.
Would the Minister mind if I read out the advertisement in the daily paper?
Quotations are not allowed and I shall not establish a precedent.
The man selling these oats said in the advertisement that they were triply cleaned?
We had discussions with the Cork Co-ops. and with merchants who hold those oats, and they freely admitted that these oats were not suitable for milling purposes nor for other purposes in respect of which licences to import were granted.
Question No. 24 postponed.