(South Tipperary) asked the Minister for Agriculture if ground maize from Germany has been offered to Irish interests at £20 per ton: if such an offer was rejected; and, if so, why.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers - German Ground Maize Offer.
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After consultation with An Bord Gráin, licences for the importation of maize meal, maize grist, and maize flour were recently refused on the grounds that arrangements had already been made for the provision of the country's immediate requirements of feed grain; that imports of limited quantities of ground maize would interfere unduly with the marketing of grain generally and feeding barley in particular and that, in any event, the price at which the commodity was stated to be on offer, namely £21 12 6 to £21 15 0 a ton c.i.f. was such that when other charges were taken into account little or no benefit would accrue to the feeder.