Written answers
Tuesday, 17 December 2019
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Beef Industry
Anne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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544. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the weekly kill weight across beef processing factories from January 2019 to date in 2019, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53399/19]
Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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Detailed information on weekly kill weights by category is provided on my Department's website as follows: https://www.agriculture.gov.ie/farmingsectors/beef/beeffactorypricesweeklyreports/2019/averageweightforsteerscowsheifersyoungbullsbulls/
Anne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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545. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the weekly import weight of beef from January 2019 to date in 2019, in tabular form; the countries from which the beef is sourced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53400/19]
Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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The Central Statistics Office (CSO) provides a monthly breakdown of beef imports by weight. According to the CSO data, imports into Ireland for the period January to September 2019 were 91,867 tonnes, or €21 million in value terms.
The following table provides further detail in relation to the countries from which these imports were sourced.
Country | €000 | Tonnes |
---|---|---|
Great Britain | 69,180 | 16,028 |
Northern Ireland | 11,579 | 2,911 |
Poland | 3,305 | 861 |
Netherlands | 2,628 | 886 |
Spain | 2,380 | 540 |
Germany | 716 | 121 |
Lithuania | 468 | 208 |
Unknown (Non-EU) | 406 | 72 |
Sweden | 342 | 89 |
France | 341 | 53 |
Belgium | 200 | 43 |
Denmark | 184 | 44 |
Italy | 83 | 11 |
Brazil | 24 | 4 |
Argentina | 11 | 1 |
Switzerland | 9 | 1 |
Slovakia | 6 | 2 |
China | 2 | 0 |
Uruguay | 2 | 0 |
Latvia | 2 | 1 |
Iceland | 0 | 0 |
Grand Total | 91,868 | 21,876 |
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