Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 1 October 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food

Challenges Facing the Tillage Industry: Discussion

2:00 am

Mr. Andy Doyle:

If I may, Vice Chair, on the Deputy's first question on Ukraine, in terms of the numbers we have in front of us, it would appear that last year we took in about 57,000 tonnes of wheat from Ukraine. It is important to say, however, that the source of imported grains is always dependent on where the cheapest supply is. It is not necessarily a regular trading pattern that is there all the time. It is wherever importers can get it cheapest. Sometimes that will just be a boatload of exported product that went onto the high seas to one place and all of a sudden was turned around and had to find a market somewhere else. That can often be the origin of the low-cost imports.

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