asked the Minister for Agriculture what his views are on the opportunity for the export of bacon and pigmeat and other individual pork and bacon products if Ireland joins the EEC; and the individual steps which he considers farmers should take now to fit them for this trade.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Common Market: Bacon and Pigmeat Exports.
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The opportunities for exporting bacon and other pigmeat products, if Ireland joins the European Economic Community, will depend on a wide variety of factors including the membership of the enlarged Community, the price level ultimately established for feed grains and the efficiency of Irish grain growers and of the pig processing industry. The Commodity Study Group for Pigs and Pigmeat and the Survey Team for the bacon industry are examining the measures which should be taken by farmers and others to adapt themselves to the new conditions of competition likely to be met with in the Common Market.
Have the Government any advice to give them as to how to adapt themselves?
I have told the Deputy about the group which has been established for the purpose of studying these matters. It is for that purpose that that group was brought into existence.
In other words, the Minister is reneging all responsibility, as usual.