asked the Minister for Agriculture if he is aware that the Agricultural Wages Board has recently reduced the value of dietary allowances applicable to farm workers who reside in their own homes but are supplied with meals as part of their wages, from 6/7d. to 5/10d. per day in the Group A areas, from 6/5d. to 5/10d. per day in the Group B areas, and from 6/3d. to 5/10d. per day in the Group C areas, although the cost of living index has increased by at least nine per cent. since May, 1956; and if, having regard to the statement made in a reply of 10th December, 1958, that the Taoiseach could not then accept the assumption that, in the Agricultural (Minimum Rates) Order, 1956, meals and other benefits were charged for at excessive rates, he will now arrange to have an estimate of the average daily cost to farmers of providing farm workers' diet compiled by the Central Statistics Office for the information of the Agricultural Wages Board.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Farm Workers' Dietary Allowances.
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I have nothing to add to the written reply which I gave to a similar question by the Deputy on the 11th March.