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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1934-07-19/30/
19 Jul 1934 -
General Mulcahy I should like to ask, in respect of Order No. 31, dealing with pig carcases, whether...in fact undertakings were given by the persons handling pigs that there would be no increase in price...to the consumer of pig products as a result of the levy put upon those carcases and whether in fact...the Minister has received any complaints that there has been an increase in the price of pig products
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1937-06-02/17/
2 Jun 1937 -
know what the position is in the country, and I know for a fact that the price that is being paid for pigs...Comparing the prices paid for pigs and the prices charged for bacon, the Pigs Marketing Board should...This matter of allowing pigs in from Northern Ireland to depress prices here should not be tolerated.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1963-05-02/9/
2 May 1963 -
Donegan Is the Minister aware that the only farmers who can make any profit on pigs are those who can...dealer, who may have some other way of selling them, or to bacon factories who want a particular type of pig...or a number of pigs in a week?...Anyone who sells them to a bacon factory is, perhaps, losing £'s per pig.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1939-05-10/28/
10 May 1939 -
Dillon Is it not true that the man producing 2,000 pigs in mass production can make a bit, whereas the...men with two, three or four pigs, who form the bulk of persons interested, cannot, in fact, make pigs
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1999-05-18/116/
18 May 1999 -
to purchase and to incorporate MBM are issued on an annual basis to home compounders to manufacture pig...Such rations are then fed to the compounders own pigs on the named pig unit on the premises specified
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Debate: Special Committee Pigs And Bacon Bill, 1934
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/special_committee_pigs_and_bacon_bill_1934/1935-04-11/29/
11 Apr 1935 -
Deputy Dillon Suppose a pig jobber buys a farmer's pigs at the fair; he is supposed to pay a fixed...He brings these pigs to the factory.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1968-02-01/19/
1 Feb 1968 -
L'Estrange Is the Minister aware that due to the last increase in the cost of pig rations, pig production...Is he prepared to give an increase in the guaranteed price to small farmers to produce pigs in order
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1935-05-02/27/
2 May 1935 -
Belton Surely when the pig population increases you cannot get out of control?...It is because we are not producing so many pigs in relation to our requirements that they have not to...It is because of a shortage of pigs.
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Debate: Joint Committee On Agriculture And The Marine
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_agriculture_and_the_marine/2020-12-17/4/
17 Dec 2020 -
Starting with the small holders and backyard pig producers, we commend the Department of Agriculture,...done fantastic work in reaching small holders in Ireland but our worry is that there are unregistered pigs...Even for a pet pig, you must have a pig herd number. Many people do not understand that....Much work needs to be done to get this information out to people with backyard and pet pigs....The backyard pig producers are the ones-----
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1968-05-01/45/
1 May 1968 -
Gibbons You would bring the barley to the pig rather than the pig to the barley?
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1973-11-01/31/
1 Nov 1973 -
Collins It has to do with pig producing and forecasting what the future of the pig industry will be.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1953-10-29/18/
29 Oct 1953 -
Walsh The answer is that pigs are bought on quality....There is a variation in price because of the quality of the pigs purchased.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1937-05-14/4/
14 May 1937 -
Dillon Because the Minister would not give licences to pig dealers to export live pigs.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1941-10-30/23/
30 Oct 1941 -
Keating Will the Minister tell us what the pig producers are going to feed or fatten pigs on?
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1938-05-25/33/
25 May 1938 -
They were pigs, they were live pigs.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1974-02-14/26/
14 Feb 1974 -
Crinion Would it be possible for the Pigs and Bacon Commission to guarantee a floor price for pig producers
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1970-07-22/3/
22 Jul 1970 -
Collins Therefore, all light pigs and all heavy pigs will be subject to this levy?
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1939-05-16/11/
16 May 1939 -
McGovern Under the Pigs and Bacon Act the benefit is measured at £1,300,000, and everybody knows that...pig production has been killed....Another cause is interference with the people in getting the sort of pigs they wish....As we are not able to fill our quota, pigs are being imported from Northern Ireland without any tariffs...The people of this country are paying, under the Pigs and Bacon scheme, to give the benefits away to
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1974-04-30/32/
30 Apr 1974 -
Murphy Payment of the temporary EEC subsidy on eligible clean pigs was originally confined to pigs delivered...have since arranged to extend payments, where feasible, to certain premises at which large numbers of pigs...These are premises at which slaughtering of all pigs is already being inspected ante and post mortem...by a local authority veterinary officer, which are suitably equipped for weighing the pig carcases and
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1956-10-25/84/
25 Oct 1956 -
matter, he should give an answer to this proposition: how is it that in Denmark, where the Landrace pig...is also subject to this disease, they continued to have the pig?...To what extent does this disease affect the production of pigs in Denmark?...We all know that the pigs in Denmark are the best bacon producers in the world, and the Danish people...seem to be altogether on the Landrace pig.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1939-11-30/32/
30 Nov 1939 -
some assurance that these activities of the commission will ensure that there will be a sufficiency of pigs...Otherwise there is a danger that where the production of pigs is on a large scale, the big bacon curers...may buy all the pigs and the small curers, either in that area or in some distant place, may not be...able to get any pigs....assurance that as far as he and the commission are concerned they will try to get an even distribution of pigs
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1941-10-30/24/
30 Oct 1941 -
the competition which obtained up to two months ago to go on, whereby you had Cork factories bringing pigs...from the west, Limerick factories bringing pigs from Kerry and Kerry factories having to go several...miles to get their pigs, and the present system....The Pigs Commission stepped in and, as far as possible, they see that the pigs are left at the nearest
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1936-03-26/26/
26 Mar 1936 -
I have another criticism to make of the Pigs and Bacon Board....When we assented to the principle underlying the Pigs and Bacon Act our principal desire was to secure...The great difficulty in the pig business in this country and in every other country always has been the...The whole object was to tell the pig producer what he would get for his fat pigs five months hence....Actually, the Pigs Marketing Board, in fixing the price for pigs, have made five alterations at least
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1956-10-25/80/
25 Oct 1956 -
Minister say that, but I would like it to go down on the record also that, when we were not exporting any pigs...at one time during the Minister's first term of office and when pigs were getting more plentiful and...That was the reason the Irish farmer got £3 per cwt. more for these pigs because the pigs were shipped...All pigs became grade A pigs over night....It may be argued we should keep the pigs at home to cure them in our own factories.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1963-11-21/4/
21 Nov 1963 -
Will the Minister explain who has got the lion's share of the pig and who has been getting it over the...brings the pig in one door and out the other, all done within three weeks?...One day it was a fat pig they wanted....When they had a fat pig the farmers were told it was a lean pig that was wanted....There are more pig rings than the one in the pig's nose.
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Debate: Special Committee Pigs And Bacon Bill, 1934
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/special_committee_pigs_and_bacon_bill_1934/1935-04-11/27/
11 Apr 1935 -
Deputy Dillon Fraud on the purchasers acts unfavourably on the producers because the pig dealers would...People dealing in pigs find that in 99 cases out of 100 the pig dealer will go within a few pounds of
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1976-04-08/5/
8 Apr 1976 -
Loughnane Even though the pig producers had a good year it should be remembered that in the previous...year there was an estimated loss of £3 million in the pig breeding industry due to certain inefficiency...It is unfair to ask the pig producers to subsidise the milk producers.
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Debate: Special Committee Pigs And Bacon Bill, 1934
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/special_committee_pigs_and_bacon_bill_1934/1935-04-11/33/
11 Apr 1935 -
(a) any non-factory-purchased pig of a class fixed by such order at a sum other than the following sum..., namely, a sum calculated by reference to the weight of such pig and the price fixed by such order for...non-factory-purchased pigs of that class, less the appropriate amount;
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1939-07-05/10/
5 Jul 1939 -
Leave granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to consolidate and amend the Pigs and Bacon Acts, 1935...to 1938, to provide for the payment of levies by bacon producers on pigs, carcases of pigs, and bacon
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1963-04-30/14/
30 Apr 1963 -
Coughlan asked the Minister for Agriculture the number of pigs exported to Spain during the period 5th...to 13th December 1962, the amount of profit or loss made on the export of these pigs, and the price...per lb. at which the bacon from these pigs was sold in Spain.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1933-05-11/4/
11 May 1933 -
of pigs....We produce a quantity of pigs enormously greater than what is required for home consumption....I saw the price quoted at 57/- for a pig of 12st., and of 30/- for a pig 16st....That meant getting the pig up to 4 st. more and suffering a loss of £1....The farmers of this country, as I said, know all about the production of pigs.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1951-11-08/99/
8 Nov 1951 -
Cogan asked the Minister for Agriculture if, in view of the need for the expansion of the pig-producing...the basis of home-produced feeding stuffs and having regard to the fact that the large white breed of pigs...purposes, he will set up a committee to inquire into the best methods of breeding, feeding, and marketing pigs...and, pending the report of this committee, if he will postpone the operation of the Pigs (Unsuitable
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1952-02-27/56/
27 Feb 1952 -
Lehane asked the Minister for Agriculture whether he is aware that pig producers in Cork are having...difficulty in marketing bacon pigs; and that pigs have been refused at factories and when taken at a...in weight in the interval; and, if so, if he will take steps to provide a suitable outlet for these pigs
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1937-03-03/20/
3 Mar 1937 -
classification and grading of carcases at licensed premises have not been made under Section 70 of the Pigs...and Bacon Act, 1935, but the Price Orders made by the Pigs Marketing Board under Section 140 of the...Act provide for the classification and grading of pig carcases....The number of pigs used for the manufacture of bacon in licensed premises during the calendar year 1936
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1941-11-12/23/
12 Nov 1941 -
Ryan The price of bacon is fixed by the Department of Supplies, not by the Pigs and Bacon Commission...The commission announced increased prices for pigs on 1st October last....This action, coupled with the widening of the grade of pigs coming within Class I and within Class II..., gave producers a substantial increase in the price of pigs.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1985-04-30/11/
30 Apr 1985 -
Wilson In the last century the pigs used to breach the canals and the company got the people to shoot...the pigs.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1932-06-02/13/
2 Jun 1932 -
Lemass Galvanised pig troughs are not subject to duty....Ungalvanised pig troughs are subject to another duty.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1939-11-24/3/
24 Nov 1939 -
Dillon It meant that the pig dealer shipping pigs to England could not pay the best possible price.
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Debate: Special Committee Pigs And Bacon Bill, 1934
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/special_committee_pigs_and_bacon_bill_1934/1935-04-11/24/
11 Apr 1935 -
Deputy Dillon They have to buy them from a pig jobber. It gives the pig jobber a chance to live.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1967-03-08/5/
8 Mar 1967 -
Blaney The Deputy has mentioned the price of pig ration and that of pig rations in the Six Counties
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2001-07-10/8/
10 Jul 2001 -
Walsh We were referred to as pigs. One headline read "Just like pigs at the trough".
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1951-04-11/38/
11 Apr 1951 -
O'Higgins Not pig producers alone: before the advisory board, the pig producers, the consumers, the
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1930-11-20/23/
20 Nov 1930 -
Ryan I have seen pigs going to the North Wall and they were by no means heavy pigs.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/1949-06-23/3/
23 Jun 1949 -
O'Farrell If he is as shrewd as Senator Counihan, he will give it to the pigs and sell the pigs to us
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1939-07-07/5/
7 Jul 1939 -
A colleague of the Taoiseach waxed eloquent on the subject of pigs....He explained that there was a rising tendency in the pig-products industry. What are the facts?...is quite true that we are exporting more bacon than we exported before but have we forgotten that "pigs...is still pigs" and that pork is still pigs....£1,965,000 and our export of pork decreased by £1,060,000, giving us a net decrease in our export of pig
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1933-03-29/20/
29 Mar 1933 -
Ryan The quantity of pig meat consumed as fresh pork in Saorstát Eireann is too small to have any appreciable...effect on the price of pigs....The price paid for dead pigs for bacon curing is, approximately, equal to that paid for similar pigs...As regards live pigs bought for curing, the Deputy should be aware that the price of bacon in Saorstát...Taking all circumstances into consideration I am satisfied that the price paid for live pigs is reasonably
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1940-11-27/17/
27 Nov 1940 -
Ryan The Pigs and Bacon Commission are aware of the arrangement referred to in the Deputy's question...and in fixing prices for pigs as between dead-weight and live-weight they have made the live-weight...price such as will compensate for any disadvantage to the producer in the purchase of pigs by live-weight
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Debate: Committee Of Public Accounts
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/committee_of_public_accounts/2019-04-18/3/
18 Apr 2019 -
Deputy Kate O'Connell Speaking hypothetically, take a pig farm or pig sheds in which there is a considerable...The by-product, pig slurry, is then spread on a field beside a river.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1935-05-02/27/
2 May 1935 -
Ryan I think the Deputy is under a misapprehension because a factory-purchased pig is purchased alive...and this amendment would be out of place entirely for a factory-purchased pig....They are not factory-purchased pigs.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/1926-05-31/7/
31 May 1926 -
I should like to call the Minister's attention to an announcement made the other day, where frozen pigs...coming in actually carried the disease; they traced it in Great Britain to those pigs....Some time a consignment of those pigs came into this country.
