Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael)
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Question 39: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the progress made to date under the pork recall scheme; the estimated cost of this scheme for 2009; the expected outlay for 2010; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43591/09]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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To date, a total of €69m has been paid to qualifying applicants under the Pigmeat Recall Scheme, €35m in 2008 and €34m to date in 2009. Of this, €30m has been paid to primary processors and €39m to secondary processors. A further €5m was paid during 2009 for the rendering of affected product.

A number of claims have yet to be lodged and therefore it is not possible to estimate precisely the further expenditure under the Scheme for the remainder of 2009 or 2010. However, it will not exceed the total facility of €180m made available by the Government for this purpose.