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Dáil Éireann debate -
Wednesday, 22 Feb 1967

Vol. 226 No. 10

Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Pig Deliveries to Bacon Factories.

30.

asked the Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries the annual number of pigs necessary for full employment of the plant in Irish bacon factories; and the number delivered to bacon factories in 1966.

The total capacity of bacon factories is estimated at about 2½ million pigs per year. The number delivered in 1966 was 1,649,000.

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