Written answers
Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Department of Agriculture and Food
Beef Quality Assurance Scheme
9:00 pm
Denis Naughten (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Fine Gael)
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Question 957: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the steps he is taking to address the anomaly within the Bord Bia quality assurance beef herd scheme in which marts are not recognised as part of the supply chain rather than destinations; if he will ensure that marts become part of the assurance scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1207/10]
Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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Currently the An Bord Bia Quality Assurance Scheme is available to all producers of beef in Ireland regardless of whether they sell their animals direct to the factory or via the mart.
The Bord is looking at the possibility of devising a scheme for live animals, in which case the marts would have a essential part.
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