Written answers

Tuesday, 9 November 2021

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Animal Slaughtering

Photo of Matt CarthyMatt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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723. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 660 of 12 October 2021, the number of cattle slaughtered from controlled finishing units in September 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54636/21]

Photo of Charlie McConalogueCharlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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Controlled Finishing Units as part of the bovine TB Eradication Programme are subject to enhanced biosecurity measures and can only sell direct to slaughter. The following table shows the number of cattle slaughtered at EU approved slaughter plants originating in Controlled Finishing Units in September 2021.

Month 2021
September 25,500

The figures are published on my Department's section of the gov.ie website on a monthly basis. The figures for a previous month only become available midway through the following month. See the link below for the current figures available to date in 2021.

www.gov.ie/en/collection/f55f2-bovine-birth-and-movements-monthly-reports/#kill-numbers-at-eu-approved-slaughter-plants-originating-in-controlled-finishing-units

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