asked the Taoiseach the cost of living index figure at the latest available date; and the reason for the increase since last September.
Ceisteanna — Questions. Oral Answers. - Cost of Living Index Figure.
15.
The consumer price index (base August, 1947=100) was 193 at mid-November, 1967 — the latest available date. The index is calculated quarterly, in respect of mid-February, mid-May, mid-August and mid-November. With your permission, Sir, I propose to circulate in the Official Report a statement giving the points change between mid-August, 1967 and mid-November, 1967 attributable to each commodity group and to the principal constituent items.
Following is the statement:
Points change in the consumer price index (base August, 1947 = 100) between mid-August and mid-November, 1967, attributable to each commodity group and to the principal constituent items.
|
Commodity group and item |
Points change |
|
Food |
–0.35 |
|
Potatoes (corrected for seasonality) |
–0.22 |
|
Cooking apples |
–0.17 |
|
Onions |
–0.11 |
|
Eggs (corrected for seasonality) |
+0.11 |
|
Clothing |
+0.05 |
|
Fuel and Light |
+0.08 |
|
Housing |
+0.64 |
|
Sundries |
+0.74 |
|
Papers and magazines |
+0.55 |
|
Admission to cinema |
+0.11 |
Could the Parliamentary Secretary tell us what happened the Taoiseach's promises, and the promises of Deputy Lemass, when he was Taoiseach, to keep down the cost of living, in view of the fact that the cost of living has increased by 20 per cent in the past three years?
Question No. 16.
You have no interest in the poor.
The Deputy has played that record so often that I am getting fed up listening to it.