asked the Minister for Industry and Commerce if he is aware that it is almost impossible to procure heavy working men's boots in Cork at present; and, if so, if he will take whatever steps are necessary to arrange that a sufficient supply of these boots is distributed to the shopkeepers concerned, as well as a sufficient supply of material for making heavy boots to the bootmakers of that district.

I would refer the Deputy to replies given in Dail Éireann on the 23rd May last and on the 9th November, 1944, to questions of a similar nature.