asked the Minister for Agriculture the average amount of the subsidy paid per gallon of milk manufactured into (a) butter (b) cheese (c) powder milk (d) chocolate crumb and (e) condensed milk during 1963, distinguishing between average selling price on the home market and the export market.
Written Answers. - Milk Subsidy.
102.
The average rates of export subsidy payable by An Bord Bainne on the products mentioned during the financial year 1963/64 are given in the following table. Figures are not available for the calendar year.
|
Produce |
Subsidy equivalent in pence per gallon of milk |
|
Butter |
6.5 |
|
Cheese |
8.3 |
|
Milk Powder (a) |
9.2 |
|
Chocolate Crumb |
6.1 |
|
Condensed Milk (b) |
— |
(a)Other than skim milk powder on which no subsidy was payable.
(b)No exports other than of condensed skim milk on which no subsidy was payable.
These figures are provisional. On the products other than butter they represent on-account payments, the final rates of subsidy not being determined until the manufacturers' certified costings for the year have been examined. Two-thirds of the subsidies are paid by the Exchequer to the Board and the remaining one-third is met from the Board's own milk levy.
In addition to export subsidies, a milk price allowance was paid by the Exchequer on all milk delivered to creameries in 1963 at the rate of 1d. per gallon from 1st January to 30th April and at the rate of 2d. per gallon thereafter.