asked the Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries if he will make a statement on the problems created by the use of bulk tanks for milk which are often found to have antibiotics in them, thereby reducing hygiene standards.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Bulk Milk Tanks.
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The supplying to creameries of milk contaminated by antibiotics is to be deprecated but I do not consider that the operation of a bulk tank milk collection system aggravates this problem; all milk assembled by a creamery for processing is bulked at the creamery irrespective of the method of collection.
Could I ask the Minister if he does not think that the possible inspiration of this question may have been a BBC television programme about Irish dairying which was very detrimental to and slanderous of Irish dairying generally and projected a very bad and false picture of the Irish dairying industry?
That is a separate matter.
I did not see the programme.