asked the Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries what relationship exists between farm prices received by EEC farmers for cattle and beef, milk, wheat, barley, sugar beet, pigs and eggs and Irish prices at this time.
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asked the Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries the relationship between current Irish prices for cattle and beef, pigs, wheat, barley and sugar beet and the prices which Irish farmers would be likely to receive for these products at this time if Ireland and Britain were members of the EEC making due allowance for transport costs between Ireland and countries to which Ireland sells or would under EEC conditions be likely to sell these products.
With your permission, a Cheann Comhairle, I propose to take Questions Nos. 3 and 4 together.
Information on the lines sought by the Deputy—to the extent that it is practicable to compile it—is included in the White Paper on membership of the European Economic Community which has just been issued. Further information will be contained in the special study on Irish agriculture and fisheries in the EEC, which is to be issued very soon.
Would the Minister agree that the study published today does not, in fact, answer the question here, that it gives details and comparisons in a number of instances between the EEC target, or intervention price, and the present Irish price but it does not take account of the question of the transport of goods? Will the study take account of that?
I suggest that the Deputy wait until the more detailed White Paper on agriculture is published next week.
Will the Minister give me an assurance that it will contain this information?
I will not give the Deputy any such assurance but when he has read it he can consider what other questions he wishes to ask.