Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 6 July 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Beef Task Force: Discussion

Photo of Michael FitzmauriceMichael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Representatives of MII gave us figures indicating a huge volume of mince. My understanding on specifications, and I have done a bit of digging on it with Bord Bia, is that something like 750,000 cuts equates to 250,000 cattle but 750,000 cattle are needed to get enough cuts to be able to cater for demand. If the figure is approximately 50% of our beef, only 250,000 cattle, if they all had the right cuts, would be required for the specifications as against what goes everywhere else. I am talking about the full volume of cattle, which is 1.4 or 1.5 million. Is that correct?

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