asked the Minister for Agriculture whether, in view of the very high price of good quality seed wheat and in order to encourage wheat growing in the country, he will take steps to make available to farmers good quality disease-free seed wheat at an attractive price.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Provision of Seed Wheat.
If the Deputy's suggestion is that seed wheat should be made available at a price less than that at which it can be economically assembled and sold by the seed trade, I wish to make it quite clear at once that I have no intention of providing any form of subsidy for seed wheat.
Farmers proposing to sow wheat should therefore not postpone the ordering of their requirements in the hope that cheaper seed than that now available in substantial quantities may be obtainable later.