asked the Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries the average price paid for creamery milk in each of the past five years.
36.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Milk Prices.
35.
(South Tipperary) asked the Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries the annual price per gallon paid to farmers for milk supplied to creameries during the past decade.
I propose to take Questions Nos. 35 and 36 together.
The reply is in the form of a tabular statement which, with your permission, a Cheann Comhairle, will be circulated with the Official Report.
Following is the statement:
|
Year |
Average price paid for creamery milk (skim milk returned free) |
|
Pence per gallon |
|
|
1956 |
18.54 |
|
1957 |
18.52 |
|
1958 |
17.75 |
|
1959 |
17.93 |
|
1960 |
19.44 |
|
1961 |
19.63 |
|
1962 |
19.58 |
|
1963 |
20.30 |
|
1964 |
22.12 |
|
1965 |
22.45 (provisional) |
(Interruptions.)
Will Deputies please cease this disorder? The House cannot proceed with the business.
May I intervene to say that the Minister for Health, notoriously unreliable, has stated what is an untruth and what I suspect he knows is an untruth.
That is not a question.
Is the House aware that, in this day and age, the Minister for Health promised 2/9 a gallon?
(Interruptions.)
Order.