Mr Taiboys in Ireland
FA Brussels arguments against New Zea-i land he is likely to hear ini The Deputy Prime Minis-l Dublin next week. ter (Mr lalboys), will have The Ministerial party flew! his first days off for several ; t0 cork and drove from after flying from, there to Killarney, where Brussels to Ireland yester- )t hey will stay until tomor-i day , ro w before driving further' The two days relaxing in west to Shannon and flying! some of the most scenic back to Dublin. parts of the Irish Republic: They plan a visit to Blarwill also prepare him for the'ney Castle, and jokes were
made when the week-end was planned about its being mandatory for all politicians to kiss the castle’s Blarney Stone.
j But there is not likely to •be much humour when’ Mr i Taiboys meets Irish Govern■ment Ministers on Monday. He plans to see the Prime I Minister (Mr Lynch), the Foreign Minister (Mr Michael O’Kennedy), the Minister of Agriculture (Mr Joseph Gibbons), and the Minister for Economic Planning and Development (Dr Martin O’Donoghue).
New Zealand and Ireland seldom see eye to eye on European Community matters. The Irish accept New Zealand’s arguments about the sheepmeat regulation and the importance to the country’s economy of the sheep industry, but they have their own sheepfarmers to look after. The Irish fear that if there was a regulation. British products would flood the French high-priced market, where Ireland now has aj favoured position. The British could do this because New Zealand lamb would supply the British market — and that’s where the Irish opposition starts. Ireland also is totally opposed to any further E.E.C. concessions to New Zealand on dairy products. The Government has said that New Zealand should not be | allowed to resume sending cheese to Britain and that it should quit the butter market altogether by 1982.
Neither is Ireland in favour of New Zealand’s getting a price rise for its dairy producers. An application for a 15.61 per cent rise was lodged with the European Commission last week.
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