Ciarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour)
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To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of horses and ponies slaughtered in each of the last two years; the number slaughtered privately; the number exported live; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42381/12]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The total equine slaughter numbers for plants approved by my Department over the past two years are as follows:

Slaughter figures for Local Authority supervised establishments and numbers slaughtered privately are not included in my Department’s figures.

Central Statistic Office figures indicate that 1,222 live equines were exported in 2010 and 2,061 in 2011. This total includes breeding horses as well as horses for slaughter, with the latter numbering 495 in 2011 (number not recorded in 2010).