Written answers

Tuesday, 7 February 2006

Department of Agriculture and Food

Animal Feed Imports

9:00 pm

Photo of Mary UptonMary Upton (Dublin South Central, Labour)
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Question 377: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the quantity of oilseed rape and the forms in which oilseed rape was imported into Ireland over the past three years up until December 2005. [3856/06]

Photo of Mary CoughlanMary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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The following table sets out the quantity of oilseed imported into Ireland for animal feed in the period 2003 to 2005 and the form in which it was imported.

2003 2004 2005 Total
000t 000t 000t 000t
Extracted (removal of oil by solvent) 144 147 139 430
Expeller (Removal of oil by mechanical extraction) 5 0 0 5
Total 435

Some 86% of the above material was imported from within the EU. No whole grains of oilseed have been imported into Ireland in the period referred to.

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