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Seanad Éireann debate -
Wednesday, 16 Nov 1927

Vol. 10 No. 2

PUBLIC BUSINESS. - DAIRY PRODUCE (AMENDMENT) BILL, 1927—SECOND STAGE.

Question proposed: "That the Dairy Produce (Amendment) Bill, 1927, be read a Second Time."

This Bill has been introduced under very exceptional circumstances to relieve an important dairying district from provisional compliance with the Act under which the butter industry of the country is being regulated. Owing to the particular circumstances of this district, owing to disease among cattle, and owing to the extent of the territory affected by these regulations the producers of milk found it impossible to comply with the strict letter of the regulations. We all agree that the Minister for Agriculture is following the proper policy in making such regulations as seem to him and to his advisers best for the proper conduct of our agriculture industry, and of the dairying industry in particular. I would be very slow to support any modification of the rules or regulations under which the butter industry is conducted, but this is an exceptional case. The Minister asks leave to exercise his discretion in the imposition of the full regulations, the time limit in the Bill is put at the utmost to the end of the year after next, and the Minister reserves to himself the right to withdraw his permit to relax the regulations whenever the time to do so seems to have arrived. I hope that the Seanad, therefore, will pass this Bill, in view of its exceptional nature and in view of the interests of this particular district, on the understanding that the Minister has our full support in carrying out to the utmost all the wise precautions that he has enshrined in his agricultural policy.

Question put and agreed to.
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