asked the Minister for Local Government if the existing legislation and Dublin Corporation bye-laws ensure the sale of fruit and vegetables in the Dublin Corporation wholesale market at the daily wholesale market prices.
47.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Fruit and Vegetable Sales.
46.
Mr. O'Leary
asked the Minister for Local Government whether vendors in Dublin fruit market are entitled to refuse sale to prospective customers.
With your permission, a Cheann Comhairle, I propose to take Questions Nos. 46 and 47 together.
There are no statutory provisions governing the prices at which commodities may be sold in the Dublin Corporation wholesale food market. I understand that prices in the market are fixed by auction or by private treaty.
I am advised that vendors in the market may not refuse to sell provided the quantity being purchased is not less than the prescribed minimum or the recognised unit of sale for the particular commodity.
Is it not well known that a certain gentleman who is a great friend of the Fianna Fáil Party was down there buying, and the prices he was paying——
That does not arise.
It is not.