Liam Aylward (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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Question 319: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the cost per annum to store meat and bonemeal and the cost per annum to her Department to export these products. [36443/05]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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At present, the only costs being met by my Department for meat and bone meal, or MBM, storage and disposal relate to the funding of three incineration contracts. These contracts provide for the destruction of surplus MBM stocks, which were taken over by my Department following the EU-wide ban on the use of MBM in animal feed. The contracts, which were placed in 2003 and are scheduled to be completed in 2006, provide for the storage, removal and incineration of over 172,000 tonnes of MBM. The total cost of these contracts amounts to approximately €23.5 million.