asked the Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries if there is any danger now or in the future of losing the trade that is being built up abroad for Grade A Irish bacon because of lack of supplies.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Irish Bacon Supplies.
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Although the volume of bacon exports has recently been reduced somewhat as a result of the decline in pig production, Ireland is still supplying a greater percentage of its bacon quota for the British market than Britain itself and four others of the eight principal suppliers of bacon to that market. The current decline in pig production has, of course, affected most pig producing countries in Western Europe. An upturn in production here is, however, expected to take place from about the middle of the year onwards and I see no reason why we should not maintain and continue to develop our pigmeat export trade generally.