Written answers
Tuesday, 21 June 2005
Department of Agriculture and Food
Livestock Industry
10:00 pm
Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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Question 441: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the percentage of Irish produce sold on the market here in each of the past five years in each of the bloodstock, beef, poultry and pig industries; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20749/05]
Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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The following tables show the figures published by the CSO for the last five years for which statistics are available:
| Beef & Veal. | |||
| Year | Meat Supplies (000 tonnes) | Meat Products for Domestic Use (000 tonnes) | Meat Products for Domestic Use as a % of Meat Supplies |
| 1998 | 605 | 67 | 11 |
| 1999 | 651 | 64 | 10 |
| 2000 | 588 | 62 | 11 |
| 2001 | 594 | 66 | 11 |
| 2002 | 556 | 69 | 12 |
| Pigmeat. | |||
| Year | Meat Supplies (000 tonnes) | Meat Products for Domestic Use (000 tonnes) | Meat Products for Domestic Use as a % of Meat Supplies |
| 1998 | 276 | 151 | 55 |
| 1999 | 285 | 155 | 54 |
| 2000 | 274 | 150 | 55 |
| 2001 | 291 | 151 | 52 |
| 2002 | 281 | 150 | 53 |
| Poultry. | |||
| Year | Meat Supplies (000 tonnes) | Meat Products for Domestic Use (000 tonnes) | Meat Products for Domestic Use as a % of Meat Supplies |
| 1998 | 149 | 110 | 74 |
| 1999 | 163 | 124 | 76 |
| 2000 | 164 | 127 | 77 |
| 2001 | 162 | 117 | 72 |
| 2002 | 159 | 119 | 75 |
| Source: CSO Meat Supply Balance. |
The following are the figures for bloodstock registered and the numbers sold at the two main auctions for the last five years:
| Bloodstock. | ||
| Year | Foals Registered by Weatherbys | Total sales at Goffs / Tattersalls |
| 2000 | 8,793 | 5,870 |
| 2001 | 9,452 | 6,241 |
| 2002 | 10,214 | 6,404 |
| 2003 | 10,574 | 6,305 |
| 2004 | 10,992 | 6,575 |
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