Written answers
Tuesday, 3 April 2007
Department of Agriculture and Food
Bovine Diseases
10:00 pm
Ned O'Keeffe (Cork East, Fianna Fail)
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Question 521: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food the amount of statutory levies paid in 2006 by Irish farmers on the sale of sheep, pigs, cattle and other commodities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12505/07]
Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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The total amount of statutory levies paid by Irish farmers in 2006 was €15.8m.
The Bovine Disease (Levies) Act, 1979 provides for disease levies to be applied to milk delivered for processing and on bovine animals slaughtered or exported live. The levies were introduced under the 1979 Act to require the farming community to make a financial contribution towards the cost of compensation paid under the TB/Brucellosis Eradication Schemes. In view of the improvement in the incidence of both diseases in recent years the levies have been reduced by 25% in 2004, 33% in 2005 and a further 50% in 2007. The current rate of levy is €1.27 per animal slaughtered/exported live and 0.06 cent per litre of milk for processing.
Section 37 of the An Bord Bia Act 1994 provides for a levy on all cattle, sheep and pigs slaughtered within the State or exported live from the State. The rates of the statutory levies are €1.90, €0.25 and €0.25 on bovines, sheep and pigs respectively
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