Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 26 November 2013
558. Deputy Andrew Doyle asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to establish a working group to promote the production of feed compounds to reduce the ever-increasing imported feed bill. [50762/13]
View answerI have no plans to establish a working group to promote the production of compound feed. There are some 100 compound feed manufacturers in the State producing in excess of 4 million tonnes per annum. It is important to the Irish feed industry that there is a consistent supply of quality feed, especially in the pig and poultry industry and those rations requiring a high protein content. Significant quantities of high protein feed materials, such as Soya Bean Meal, Distillers Dried Grains and Maize Gluten Feed are imported as there is limited scope for alternative protein substitution from home-grown protein crops.
