Written answers
Tuesday, 22 September 2009
Department of Agriculture and Food
Food Industry
9:00 pm
Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 333: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the sales growth of the agrifood sector over the past decade; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32021/09]
Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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The Central Statistics Office (CSO) publishes detailed data on the food-manufacturing sector in its Census of Industrial Production (CIP), which is an annual publication. The CIP is available under the Industry publications section of the CSO website at http://www.cso.ie/. The table below gives details, in terms of the annual turnover for companies in the agrifood sector for the ten year period between 1997 and 2006, the most recent year for which data are available:
| Sector/Year | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 |
| Manufacture of Food Products, Beverages and Tobacco (€million) | 15,392 | 16,187 | 17,864 | 19,517 | 20,799 |
| Sector/Year | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 |
| Manufacture of Food Products, Beverages and Tobacco (€million) | 20,501 | 22,560 | 22,674 | 22,646* | 23,281* |
| * Food and beverages onlySource: CSO, Census of Industrial Production |
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