andMr. McQuillan asked the Minister for Industry and Commerce whether his attention has been drawn to a statement in Paper No. 9 of the Economic Research Institute that, bearing in mind the possibility that retail grocery margins may be somewhere lower in Ireland than in the United Kingdom, the implication would be that the cost of production of these products in Ireland is probably substantially higher than in the United Kingdom; if he proposes to carry out an investigation on the lines of the reports of the Committee on Industrial Organisation to establish the reasons for such a position; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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