asked the Minister for Agriculture if he will make public the results of the investigations carried out by his Department on the incidence of tuberculosis in cattle, to which he referred in his address to the Congress of the Irish Dairy Shorthorn Breeders' Association reported in the daily Press of 4th January, 1936.

The investigations carried out by the Department on the incidence of tuberculosis in cattle were undertaken only in very small areas. They were not sufficiently widespread or exhaustive to warrant publication of the results.

Does the Minister not recognise the anxiety that this rather contradictory statement may create? I am referring to the statement he made that it would cost millions of money to eradicate tuberculosis, and that the problem was a very serious one.

I do not see anything to contradict in that.