Written answers
Tuesday, 6 November 2007
Department of An Taoiseach
Beef Imports
9:00 pm
David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael)
Link to this: Individually | In context
Question 98: To ask the Taoiseach the country of origin and respected amounts of imported beef, lamb and sheep meat, pig meat and poultry into the State in 2004, 2005 and 2006 respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27530/07]
Tom Kitt (Dublin South, Fianna Fail)
Link to this: Individually | In context
The information requested by the Deputy is presented in the table below.
The table shows total meat imports by country (top ten in each meat category).
Imports of Meat | |||||||
2004 | 2005 | 2006 | |||||
Country of Origin | €000 | Tonnes | €000 | Tonnes | €000 | Tonnes | |
Beef | Great Britain | 33,231 | 12,413 | 37,476 | 16,124 | 41,725 | 13,344 |
Brazil | 16,396 | 6,587 | 20,462 | 6,867 | 20,905 | 6,320 | |
Netherlands | 2,949 | 703 | 8,757 | 3,667 | 12,198 | 5,171 | |
France | 1,733 | 1,044 | 1,941 | 1,018 | 2,374 | 1,133 | |
Northern Ireland | 172 | 177 | 2,874 | 923 | 8,386 | 1,961 | |
Germany | 2,530 | 680 | 1,783 | 478 | 2,375 | 482 | |
Ireland* | 1,275 | 546 | 1,045 | 559 | 1,629 | 415 | |
Belgium | 854 | 219 | 1,054 | 247 | 2,366 | 603 | |
Argentina | 139 | 64 | 1,065 | 270 | 500 | 141 | |
Italy | 579 | 106 | 482 | 178 | 507 | 97 | |
Other | 1,132 | 520 | 929 | 408 | 2,124 | 925 | |
Beef Total | 60,990 | 23,059 | 77,868 | 30,739 | 95,089 | 30,592 | |
Pork | Great Britain | 50,426 | 18,165 | 51,157 | 17,105 | 60,863 | 20,854 |
Ireland* | 26,133 | 10,459 | 23,639 | 9,172 | 28,114 | 10,026 | |
Germany | 23,457 | 7,166 | 24,668 | 7,778 | 30,613 | 8,436 | |
Denmark | 21,224 | 8,382 | 22,030 | 8,900 | 14,813 | 5,275 | |
Netherlands | 13,952 | 5,179 | 15,550 | 5,777 | 22,364 | 7,017 | |
France | 12,074 | 5,277 | 13,641 | 5,566 | 13,697 | 4,788 | |
Northern Ireland | 7,026 | 2,264 | 6,724 | 2,201 | 4,125 | 1,278 | |
Italy | 1,513 | 1,347 | 3,363 | 1,545 | 2,920 | 1,466 | |
Austria | 428 | 333 | 3,424 | 1,914 | 3,591 | 1,338 | |
Belgium | 3,756 | 1,079 | 3,998 | 1,346 | 3,396 | 800 | |
Other | 3,205 | 874 | 3,248 | 1,031 | 6,780 | 2,664 | |
Pork Total | 163,194 | 60,525 | 171,442 | 62,335 | 191,276 | 63,942 | |
Poultry | Great Britain | 82,183 | 22,533 | 103,989 | 33,656 | 90,093 | 24,867 |
Netherlands | 45,225 | 12,276 | 47,919 | 13,325 | 56,540 | 18,199 | |
Northern Ireland | 27,661 | 6,724 | 29,524 | 7,729 | 26,339 | 6,360 | |
Belgium | 11,045 | 4,028 | 12,945 | 4,532 | 13,461 | 4,657 | |
Thailand | 8,506 | 2,836 | 11,879 | 4,656 | 12,467 | 4,822 | |
Germany | 7,526 | 1,996 | 12,542 | 3,469 | 19,927 | 5,482 | |
Brazil | 5,061 | 1,728 | 8,621 | 2,854 | 6,091 | 2,229 | |
France | 11,416 | 2,699 | 6,070 | 1,631 | 6,239 | 1,603 | |
Italy | 4,958 | 1,646 | 5,915 | 1,840 | 7,610 | 2,335 | |
Ireland* | 2,157 | 1,059 | 2,550 | 641 | 3,173 | 821 | |
Other | 3,074 | 949 | 5,498 | 1,748 | 5,968 | 1,963 | |
Poultry Total | 208,812 | 58,474 | 247,452 | 76,081 | 247,908 | 73,338 | |
Sheep/lamb | Great Britain | 6,021 | 1,686 | 5,952 | 1,391 | 7,288 | 1,656 |
New Zealand | 1,386 | 628 | 1,029 | 280 | 1,102 | 328 | |
France | 370 | 155 | 201 | 74 | 580 | 204 | |
Northern Ireland | 103 | 22 | 834 | 209 | 1,544 | 183 | |
Netherlands | 212 | 44 | 147 | 37 | 363 | 112 | |
Germany | 90 | 29 | 197 | 74 | — | — | |
Turkey | 323 | 85 | — | — | — | — | |
Belgium | 137 | 41 | 4 | 1 | 92 | 33 | |
Ireland* | 108 | 38 | — | — | 99 | 13 | |
Australia | 141 | 39 | — | — | 3 | 1 | |
Other | 105 | 23 | 161 | 82 | 237 | 56 | |
Sheep/lamb Total | 8,996 | 2,790 | 8,525 | 2,148 | 11,308 | 2,586 | |
Grand Total | 441,992 | 144,848 | 505,287 | 171,303 | 545,581 | 170,458 | |
*The table reflects Country of Origin rather than Country of Consignment, hence Imports from Ireland. |
Further information is available from the Trade Helpdesk at trade@cso.ie.
No comments