Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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958. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of kilos of beef killed per week in all factories and abattoirs here. [24496/18]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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In 2017 there was a total of 586,182,300 Kg’s of beef slaughtered in all factories and abattoirs. This is on average 11,272,737 Kg’s per week. (See table below for breakdown)

Beef that is slaughtered in meat factories is categorised as follows:

A – Young Bull (<24 months)

B – Mature Bull (>24 months)

C- Steer

D- Cow

E- Heifer

The average weights are taken from Price reporting abattoirs (24) and the total numbers slaughtered is a total of all Department of Agriculture controlled factories and local authority controlled abattoirs.