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Dáil Éireann debate -
Thursday, 25 Nov 1971

Vol. 257 No. 3

Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Agricultural Food Price Saving.

73.

asked the Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries the saving to the Exchequer as a result of the increased price paid on the export market for agricultural foods.

The Deputy will appreciate that, with four months of the financial year still to run, it is not possible to state with certainty what the outturn will be. However, if present favourable market trends continued until the end of the financial year the saving might be of the order of £4 million to £5 million. Most of this saving is likely to be required to meet increased expenditure on other items in the Department's Vote.

Would the Minister consider using this money to remove the differential between the rate of payments under the beef export guarantee scheme and the UK fat stock guarantee scheme?

With respect, I cannot see the relationship between the original question and the supplementary.

The Minister is saving money and I am telling him how to spend it.

On the one hand, but on the other there is over-expenditure under many other subheads including the brucellosis scheme which affects the Deputy's own constituency greatly.

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