(South Tipperary) asked the Taoiseach if he will state for the calendar year 1965 the value of (1) agricultural production, (2) agricultural exports, (3) industrial production, (4) industrial exports, (5) agricultural consumer imports, (6) industrial consumer imports (7) agricultural capital imports, (8) industrial capital imports, (9) subsidisation to agriculture, (10) subsidisation to industry, (11) total agricultural employment, (12) total industrial employment, (13) annual average income of persons employed in agriculture and (14) annual average income of persons employed in industry.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Agricultural and Industrial Production.
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I propose with your permission, Sir, to circulate in the Official Report a statement giving the information requested by the Deputy in so far as it is available.
Following is the statement:
Item (1): The value of gross agricultural output (i.e. sales off the “national farm” plus consumption of own produce in farm households), together with the value of changes in livestock numbers, is provisionally estimated as £252 million for the year 1965. The corresponding estimate for net output (i.e. gross output less input of seed, feed and fertiliser) is £200 million.
Item (3): Particulars of the value of industrial production are obtained in the Annual Census of Industrial Production. The latest year for which complete returns are available is 1963. The gross output of industry (i.e. the sum of the total value of goods produced in each factory, etc.) was £679.1 million (exclusive of Excise Duty) in 1963. The corresponding value of net output (i.e. gross output less input of materials and fuel) was £241.8 million.
Items (2) and (4): Distribution of domestic exports between agricultural, industrial and unclassified in the year 1965.
|
Category |
£million |
|
Agricultural, forestry and fishing produce |
120.6 |
|
Industrial |
81.4 |
|
Unclassified |
16.0 |
|
Total |
218.0 |
NOTE: The definitions used for the various categories are those set out in Appendix 2 of the "Second Programme for Economic Expansion" publication.
Items (5), (6), (7), and (8): Distribution of Imports according to main uses in the year 1965:
|
Use Category |
£million |
|
Producers' capital goods ready for use |
60.3 |
|
Consumption goods ready for use |
80.0 |
|
Food, drink and tobacco |
23.2 |
|
Other |
56.8 |
|
Materials for further production |
219.5 |
|
Agricultural |
17.8 |
|
Other |
201.7 |
|
Unclassified |
11.8 |
|
Total |
371.6 |
NOTE: Materials for agriculture, e.g. maize, which are processed in this country before use, have been included in "other materials for further production". With regard to cattle imports, animals for breeding have been classified as "producers' capital, goods ready for use", store bullocks store heifers and calves have been classified as "materials for further agricultural production" and the remainder (which were mostly fat beasts) classified as "materials for further non-agricultural production".
It is not possible separately to distinguish the import use categories as to whether they are "agricultural" or "industrial".
Items (9) and (10): In the system of national accounts the transactions which are classified as subsidies or capital grants are shown in Table A 16 of “National Income and Expenditure 1964” (Pr. 8716). The following table shows the totals for these items which relate to agriculture and industry respectively.
Subsidies and Capital Grants to Agriculture and Industry in the financial year 1964-'65.
|
Agriculture |
£ (thousands) |
|
Subsidies |
22,183 |
|
Capital Grants |
4,084 |
|
26,267 |
|
|
Industry |
|
|
Subsidies |
2,429 |
|
Capital Grants |
3,802 |
|
6,231 |
Item (11): The number of persons at work in agriculture was estimated to be 330,000 in April, 1965.
Item (12): The number of persons at work in all industrial employment was estimated to be 291,000 in April, 1965.
Items (13) and (14): Estimated total income arising (including wages, salaries, profits etc.) in each sector per person at work in 1965:
|
£ |
|
|
Agriculture |
500 |
|
Industry |
863 |