Will the Minister say why we have not under the aegis of his Department a public health laboratory similar to that in other European countries to ensure that we have our own research facilities to examine specimens and to make certain that everything is up to the proper standards? Do the Government intend to amend legislation to ensure, through the Department of Health or the health boards, that there will be control over food sold? As the Minister is aware, much of the control, for example, in respect of meat and meat products rests with local authorities. Does the Minister not think it more appropriate that this power should be vested in the health boards so that the directors of community care would be responsible for ensuring that food is up to the right quality?

I would not be entirely opposed to the statement of the Deputy with the proviso that there should be a transfer of resources from the Department of the Environment or the local authorities to the health boards if that work was to be done. Secondly, there is great pressure on my Department to play a much larger role in relation to additives in respect of agriculture. I have agreed to the Department having a far stronger role in relation to additives in meat processed. It looks as though we are going to have our hands full. The Department would have to have a transfer of resources from the Department of Agriculture because we have a very small staff and we do not have the facility for this kind of operation.

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I am afraid not. The remaining questions will appear on tomorrow's Order Paper.

There is nothing I can do about it.

It appears that everything we raise is out of order.