Written answers
Tuesday, 26 February 2013
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Food Imports
Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the value and range of meat products, including horse meat, imported each year for the past two years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9683/13]
Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The following table, drawn from the official CSO Trade Statistics gives a breakdown of meat imports into Ireland in 2012 and 2011.
2011 | 2012 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Category of Meat | € 000 | Tonnes | € 000 | Tonnes |
| Poultry | 284,092 | 85,998 | 326,909 | 99,187 |
| Pigmeat | 214,044 | 79,027 | 243,634 | 81,983 |
| Beef | 158,459 | 46,240 | 150,054 | 40,032 |
| Sheepmeat | 14,230 | 3,444 | 18,384 | 3,668 |
| Other Meat & Meat Produce | 40,739 | 12,193 | 38,700 | 11,331 |
| Including, Meat of Horses, Asses, Mules of Hinnies | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0* |
| Grand Total | 711,564 | 226,902 | 777,681 | 236,201 |
* The weight of product is too low to feature in official statistics
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