§ Mr. P. MEEHANasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland if he will consider the advisability of arranging that a list be published each week by the Department of Agriculture of all persons applying to the Department for a licence to export potatoes from Ireland under the recent Board of Trade Order, together with the quantity of potatoes each person applies to export, the quantity each person is permitted to export, and the destination thereof?
§ Mr. LUNDONasked the Chief Secretary for Ireland if he will take care that the names of those to whom licences for the export of potatoes may be granted will be published weekly by the Department of Agriculture, as well as the amounts exported and the destination of such exports?
§ Mr. DUKEAs I informed the hon. Member for Queen's County (Leix) yesterday, I am in consultation with the Department of Agriculture on this matter.
§ Mr. LUNDONasked whether the officials of the Department of Agriculture (Ireland) are making any inquiries into the alleged cornering of potatoes by potato exporters; and, in view of the fact that there is some ground for the allegations made, will immediate steps be taken to set the minds of the Irish public at rest in the matter by investigating the whole question?
§ Mr. DUKEI would refer the hon. Member to the answer given to his question of the 19th instant. Inquiries are being made as to the alleged cornering of potatoes in Ireland.