Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent)
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245. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide the weight in kilograms of primal cuts of beef that were imported to Ireland from Poland in each of the years 2012 to 2015 and in the first six months of 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31199/16]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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The figures sought by the Deputy are published by the Central statistics Office. They indicate that the total annual volumes of primal cuts of beef imported from Poland since 2012 are as follows:

- 2012: 804 (all bovine meat categories)

- 2013: 398 (total volume of bovine meat minus offal)

- 2014: 181 (total volume of bovine meat minus offal)

- 2015: 550 (total volume of bovine meat minus offal)

- 2016 (to end June): 254 (total volume of bovine meat minus offal)

It should be noted that Ireland was a net exporter of beef to Poland in each of the above years. The comparable export figures are as follows:

- 2012: 1,864 (all bovine meat categories)

- 2013: 1,674 (total volume of bovine meat minus offal)

- 2014: 2,814 (total volume of bovine meat minus offal)

- 2015: 1,635 (total volume of bovine meat minus offal)

- 2016 (to end June): 1,022 (total volume of bovine meat minus offal)