asked the Taoiseach if he will state the average price paid to growers for wheat of the 1955 harvest.

The average price paid to date to growers for green millable wheat of the 1955 harvest was 68/2 per barrel. This figure is subject to revision.

asked the Taoiseach if he will state the c.i.f. price per barrel of foreign wheat imported in the cereal year 1955-56.

Between 1st September, 1955, and 31st May, 1956, the average c.i.f. price of imported wheat (except seed for sowing) was £3 12s. per barrel and the average c.i.f. price of imported wheat seed for sowing was £4 12s. 9d. per barrel.