Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein)
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1371. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the allocation for promoting Irish food abroad by Bord Bia in each of the years 2011 to 2016; and the allocation for 2017 in tabular form. [38487/17]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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My Department provides an annual grant to Bord Bia to carry its role to promote, assist and develop the marketing of Irish food, livestock and horticulture at home and abroad; to develop potential markets; to collect market intelligence, provide advice on trends and opportunities, to engage in promotion and quality assurance schemes, and to administer schemes, grants, and other financial facilities including EU funding. 

The Estimates for Vote 30 Agriculture, Food and the Marine show expenditure allocations for Bord Bia.

Marketing and Promotional Expenditure  

These Programmes together with the Bord Bia Sustainable Beef and Lamb Quality Assurance Scheme, the Food Dudes Healthy Eating Initiative, pay and cost of funding Bord Bia main office and 13 offices abroad are funded by Department grant, statutory levies and industry contributions. 

Marketing and promotional activities are reported on in detail in the Bord Bia Annual Reports.

Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein)
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1372. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the allocation for promoting Irish sea food abroad by Bord Bia in each of the years 2011 to 2016; and the allocation for 2017 in tabular form. [38488/17]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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My Department provides an annual grant to Bord Bia to carry out its role to promote, assist and develop the marketing of Irish food, livestock and horticulture at home and abroad; to develop potential markets; to collect market intelligence, provide advice on trends and opportunities, to engage in promotion and quality assurance schemes, and to administer schemes, grants, and other financial facilities including EU funding.  This includes the promotion of Irish seafood exports.

The Estimates for Vote 30 Agriculture, Food and the Marine show expenditure allocations for Bord Bia. Marketing and promotional activities are reported on in detail in the Bord Bia Annual Reports.

In relation to the years 2016 and 2017, additional funding above the Vote 30 expenditure was provided by my Department under the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) Operational Programme 2014-2020.  This was co-funded by the Exchequer and EU.