Food and Gas Subsidies, 1976–1978
Desmond requested subsidy expenditure for bread, flour, dairy products and town gas; Colley referred him to a circulated table, noting the EEC butter contribution and cheese subsidy abolition.
asked the Minister for Finance the amounts of Exchequer subsidies for 1976, 1977 and 1978 in respect of (a) bread and flour; (b) milk, butter and dairy products; and (c) town gas.
Comment on this
: The actual expenditure on Exchequer subsidies for 1976 and 1977 and the estimated expenditure for 1978 are given in a tabular statement which, with the permission of the Ceann Comhairle, I am having circulated with the Official Report:
Exchequer Expenditure on Consumer Subsidies.
(1) (a) This excludes an EEC contribution of £2.9 million in 1976, £5.4 million in 1977 and an estimated £7.2 million in 1978 in respect of butter.
(b) The only dairy product, apart from milk and butter, which has been subsidised is cheese. This subsidy was abolished as from 13 January 1978.
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