Austin Deasy
Question:14 Mr. Deasy asked the Taoiseach the estimated value of all agricultural imports in each of the last three years.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Agricultural Imports.
I propose to circulate in the Official Report a statement giving information on the imports of food and live animals in each of the last three years.
Following is the statement:
Food and Live Animal Imports.
|
1988 |
1989 |
1990* |
|
|
£million |
|||
|
Live Animals |
75.8 |
81.1 |
55.0 |
|
Meat and meat preparations |
81.1 |
113.5 |
86.6 |
|
Dairy products and birds' eggs |
42.0 |
48.7 |
55.5 |
|
Fish, crustaceans and molluscs and preparations thereof |
39.4 |
40.0 |
52.9 |
|
Cereals and cereal preparations |
181.7 |
182.3 |
183.0 |
|
Vegetables and fruit |
188.8 |
213.6 |
217.9 |
|
Sugar, sugar preparations and honey |
70.1 |
63.2 |
68.1 |
|
Coffee, tea, cocoa, spices and manufactures thereof |
111.0 |
105.4 |
109.9 |
|
Feeding stuff for animals (not including unmilled cereals) |
213.5 |
243.7 |
210.6 |
|
Miscellaneous edible products and preparations |
63.0 |
62.3 |
80.1 |
|
Totals |
1,066.2 |
1,153.9 |
1,119.4 |
* Provisional
In general it should be noted that commodity detail from external trade statistics does not include:
(a) transactions (non-dutiable) of less than £200;
(b) trade by firms operating in Shannon Free Airport; and
(c) postal packages not covered by customs entries.
As there are merely three figures involved can the Minister give me those?
The total for 1988 is £1,066.2 million, for 1989 £1,153.9 million, and for January to November 1990 £1,119.4 million.
We now proceed to deal with question nominated for priority to the Minister for Agriculture and Food.