O'Connell, John F.Tuesday, 23 February 1971 |
Dáil Eireann Debate
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Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Membership of EEC.
asked the Taoiseach the effect which membership of the EEC will have on Irish retail prices for beef, mutton and butter.
asked the Taoiseach by how much, on an average, food prices will rise when Ireland joins the EEC.
Would the Parliamentary Secretary not consider it advisable that the prices of normal food products should be spelled out?
Would the Parliamentary Secretary not agree that the people interested are the housewives?
Would the Parliamentary Secretary be in a position to give us figures for foodstuffs that apply at the present time in Common Market countries so that we will have some idea of what the prices might ...
And the Parliamentary Secretary will communicate with me?
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - General Medical Service.
asked the Minister for Health if any information has been made available to his Department to warrant the reopening of discussions with the medical profession on the fee per item of service method of ...
Further to the Minister's reply, would he not agree that the main items of conflict at the present time relate, firstly, to permanent DMOs and, secondly, to temporary DMOs? Does the Minister think th...
In view of the fact that the abolition of the dispensary system is such an important matter, would the Minister not think it advisable to reopen discussions with the profession and not to consider at...
The Minister will agree that these difficulties are not insuperable?
If it were possible to reopen discussions, could the new scheme come into operation by 1st April?
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Membership of EEC.
asked the Minister for External Affairs if, in view of the great uncertainties and possible hazards to all elements of Irish life which membership of the EEC entails, an adequate study has been made o...
If Britain decided not to go into the EEC would the question arise about our joining without Britain?
The Minister has not answered it.
Is the Minister sure it would be only temporary?
What percentage?
Britain's figure relates to a percentage.
Do you not mean that if they do not go in we do not go in?
You mean that if they do not go in we do not go in?
It certainly does.
That is what you are trying to avoid saying.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Food Prices.
asked the Minister for Transport and Power if, consequent on food prices here rising to continental levels, the Irish tourist trade, particularly the trade with Britain, will be adversely affected.
I do not dispute the Minister's figures but I am asking what will happen if and when we join the EEC—will the situation not be reversed? Is not the fact that we are third from the bottom in the Europ...
It is related to the question. Are we not dealing with Question No. 16?
I am talking about prices of food in this country. It is directly related, in view of the fact that if we enter the EEC prices will rise——
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Membership of EEC.
asked the Minister for Industry and Commerce whether food prices and living costs will rise on Irish entry to the EEC, and whether, simultaneously, the various existing subsidies on manufactured expor...
asked the Minister for Industry and Commerce how Irish manufacturing industry will be able to survive within the EEC, in view of the fact that Irish manufactured exports may become less competitive, b...
I hope I will be allowed to ask a supplementary.
In error I mentioned export subsidies. What I meant was export incentives by way of tax free allowances which will last until 1990. According to the Rome Treaty, Article 54 I think, such incentives ...
Does it not alter the question?
Does the Minister not agree that, if concessions are given to companies who are exporting, that amounts to a subsidy?
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