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Dáil Éireann debate -
Thursday, 13 Oct 1994

Vol. 445 No. 8

Written Answers. - Pig Prices.

Avril Doyle

Question:

100 Mrs. Doyle asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Forestry if he will give details in tabular form of the weekly grade in price for pigs per factory for 1993 and to date in 1994. [1196/94]

The average weekly pig prices at a representative sample of Irish export plants are contained in the following table. The information is supplied by the individual plants on a confidential basis.

Average Irish weekly pig prices at export premises £ per 100 kgs.

w/e

1993

w/e

1994

January

3/1

99.01

2/1

98.16

10/1

94.54

9/1

96.72

17/1

93.37

16/1

95.43

24/1

93.12

23/1

95.95

31/1

93.46

30/1

94.95

February

7/2

93.44

6/2

94.72

14/2

95.04

13/2

94.84

21/2

97.17

20/1

94.96

28/2

97.84

27/2

96.06

March

7/3

97.73

6/3

97.54

14/3

97.71

13/3

97.88

21/3

98.48

20/3

99.00

28/3

101.09

27/3

99.87

April

4/4

103.70

3/4

99.84

11/4

104.67

10/4

98.65

18/4

104.64

17/4

98.39

25/4

105.00

24/4

98.24

May

2/5

105.67

1/5

98.62

9/5

107.03

8/5

99.06

16/5

107.45

15/5

99.29

23/5

107.87

22/5

103.79

30/5

108.30

29/5

107.57

June

6/6

108.14

5/6

109.52

13/6

108.75

12/6

110.41

20/6

107.99

19/6

109.53

27/6

107.75

26/6

107.72

July

4/7

106.84

3/7

104.31

11/7

106.02

10/7

101.72

18/7

105.59

17/7

100.42

25/7

105.46

24/7

99.91

August

1/8

104.23

31/7

99.42

8/8

104.02

7/8

98.54

15/8

102.85

14/8

97.95

22/8

102.44

21/8

97.49

29/8

102.02

28/8

98.57

September

5/9

101.83

4/9

98.68

12/9

99.45

9/9

98.73

19/9

98.29

18/9

100.11

26/9

97.36

25/9

102.61

October

3/10

96.88

2/10

102.42

10/10

95.16

9/10

102.59

17/10

93.81

24/10

93.70

31/10

94.33

November

7/11

94.26

14/11

94.58

21/11

95.33

28/11

96.38

December

5/12

96.82

12/12

97.76

19/12

98.00

26/12

98.09

Note: The above prices are the official prices reported to the European Commission in Brussels on the basis of data supplied to the Department by a number of factories.
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