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Dáil Éireann debate -
Tuesday, 18 Nov 1980

Vol. 324 No. 4

Written Answers. - Agricultural Expenses.

297.

asked the Taoiseach if he will give details of expenses of agriculture in respect of the last two years for which figures are available in the form of a reply to a parliamentary question of 8 March 1961.

The details requested by the Deputy are shown in the following table for 1978 and 1979, the latest two years for which the figures are available.

Estimated Net Output and Expenses of Agriculture 1978 and 1979

1979(Preliminary)

1978

Item

£ million

Net Output of Agriculture (including value of changes in livestock numbers

1,177.7

1,151

Expenses of Agriculture:

Land Annuities

1.0

1

Rates

33.6

39

Wages and Salaries

50.0

54

Repairs to machinery, spare parts, etc.

32.8

344*

Petrol, fuel, oil, etc.

41.1

Depreciation of machinery and implements

112.4

Transport and marketing

21.8

Others

73.4

lessTotal Expenses

366.1

438

plusSubsidies not related to sales (live-stock headage payments in handicapped areas, beef cow subsidy scheme etc.)

24.6

26

Income from self-employment and other trading income

836.2

739

* Separate details not yet available for 1979.

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