asked the Minister for Agriculture if he will restore the 30 bounty on cattle over two years old to compensate the tillage farmers in some small degree for the increased expense of keeping on stall-fed cattle for which his Department are not prepared to issue shipping licences; if he is aware that a lot of cattle that would in normal times have been sold off long since are still in the stalls and the cost of longer feeding periods is burdensome.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Bounty on Cattle.
Dr. Ryan
The question of revising the rate of export bounty on cattle will be considered in due course. I am not, however, prepared to raise the rate of bounty for the present.