asked the Taoiseach the estimated cost of Irish imports from the United Kingdom for the first nine months of 1979 and the amount of cost attributable to the exchange rate of the Irish pound vis-à-vis sterling.

Imports from the United Kingdom in the seven-month period January-July 1979, the latest for which information is available, amounted to IR£1,341 million.

Particulars are not recorded in the external trade statistics of the amount of the total cost attributable to specific factors.