asked the Minister for Agriculture if he is now in a position to state the price per gallon creamery milk suppliers will receive for milk next year.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Milk Prices.
There is nothing I can usefully add to the replies on the subject of creamery milk prices which I gave to Deputy Cogan on the 29th March and Deputy Maguire on the 30th March.
If in the event of the Minister and the creamery societies throughout the country failing to reach agreement on the matter of price, when is it proposed that the Minister will exercise the responsibility which he has of announcing what the price is to be for 1951?
I am sure the House will discharge me from the obligation of answering improbable hypothetical questions.
Am I to take it that, as a result of the query which he has sent out to the co-operative societies, there is agreement in the main expressed by them as to the proposal which he has made in regard to the dairy industry for the next five years?
I am afraid I have nothing to add to the reply which I have already given.
May I take it that the majority of the societies indicated their willingness to accept the scheme?