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asked the Minister for Industry and Commerce if he is aware that farmers offered to contract for 30,000 acres of beet more than could be contracted for by Comhlucht Siúicre Éireann, Teoranta, this season owing to the British levy on Irish sugar imports; and what steps he is taking in the matter.
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asked the Minister for Industry and Commerce if he is aware that the levy on Irish sugar and sugar products exported to Britain is seriously interfering with the expansion of agricultural production in this country; and if he can now state the results of the Government's representations for the removal of the levy.
I propose with the permission of the Ceann Comhairle to take Questions Nos. 28 and 29 together.
I have already stated in reply to earlier Questions in Dáil Éireann that the conditions applying to the importation of Irish sugar and sugar products into Britain had been made the subject of discussions with the British authorities. These discussions have not yet been concluded.
