In view of the fact that this Dáil is about to adjourn for a very long period and that we may expect a Report from the Grain Commission in a short time I would like to get an assurance from the Minister that this House will be called together to consider that Report. The Dáil is adjourning till November and by that time the harvest will have been sold for what can be got for it. The Report of the Commission and the decision of this House upon it might very well affect the price that the farmers will get for their harvest and I think it is very important that the House should be called together when the Report is issued.
I would also like an assurance from the Minister with regard to the decision of the De-rating Commission. I do not know how long more that is going to sit. It has been sitting for a long period and we hope soon to get some results from it. If the farming community have to enter into competition with their fellow-farmers across the Border who do not pay rates we do not know how long they will be able to exist. I think it is a very serious thing that this House should adjourn for five months without having the Reports from these Commissions before them and coming to some decision upon them.
In view of the present precarious condition of the butter industry I think that is another matter on which some very definite decision should be come to by the Minister. I think it is an outrage in a country like this that is depending practically altogether on the agricultural industry that the House should remain without sitting for five months when the farming industry is in this condition. We should have some definite idea as to when the Commissions are expected to conclude their sittings and get an assurance that the House will be called together to consider the Reports of the Commissions.