Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Wednesday, 4 Aug 1971

Vol. 255 No. 18

Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Agricultural Products.

2.

Mr. Hogan

asked the Taoiseach if he will state in respect of each of the past ten years the quantity and value of this country's annual exports to the United Kingdom of butter, cheese, pork, bacon and ham, mutton and lamb, beef and veal.

Mr. Andrews

With your permission, Sir, I propose to circulate in the Official Report a statement showing the data requested.

Following is the statement: EXPORTS OF CERTAIN ITEMS TO GREAT BRITAIN AND THE SIX COUNTIES EACH YEAR 1961 TO 1970.

Year	Beef and veal, fresh, chilled or frozen	Mutton and lamb, fresh, chilled or frozen	Pork	Bacon and ham	Butter	Cheese
Quantity	Value	Quantity	Value	Quantity	Value	Quantity	Value	Quantity	Value	Quantity	Value
	Tons	£000	Tons	£000	Tons	£000	Tons	£000	Tons	£000	Tons	£000
1961	32,849	7,494	6,667	1,624	2,829	677	28,152	6,986	14,122	3,620	2,279	483
1962	20,621	4,972	13,317	3,262	8,428	1,914	25,889	5,914	12,953	3,910	3,740	752
1963	16,933	4,099	10,908	2,736	7,915	1,850	26,030	6,656	15,907	5,535	6,117	1,285
1964	19,460	5,107	9,246	2,448	5,486	1,163	27,639	7,183	16,690	6,241	9,306	2,266
1965	28,331	7,696	9,299	2,513	16,689	3,007	27,143	6,575	18,401	6,366	8,832	2,238
1966	41,547	10,911	11,888	3,049	5,571	1,285	27,895	7,865	22,404	7,292	12,214	3,115
1967	108,197	27,434	10,126	2,832	2,213	552	23,496	6,771	26,953	8,803	15,966	4,405
1968	89,136	25,105	5,983	2,063	8,097	1,942	28,204	8,081	27,593	8,796	20,038	5,822
1969	84,843	24,404	4,465	1,544	14,729	3,382	27,689	8,361	23,970	7,609	17,437	5,136
1970	101,528	32,450	1,787	630	7,548	2,125	27,274	8,846	32,489	10,751	19,993	5,908

3.

Mr. Hogan

asked the Taoiseach if he will state in respect of each of the past ten years this country's annual production figures for butter, cheese, pork, bacon and ham, mutton and lamb, beef and veal.

Mr. Andrews

With your permission, Sir, I propose to circulate in the Official Report a statement giving the required information.

Following is the statement:

ESTIMATED production* of butter cheese, pork, bacon and ham, mutton and lamb and beef and veal in each of the years 1961-1970 inclusive.

	Butter	Cheese	Pig meat	Mutton and lamb	Beef and veal
Pork	Bacon and ham
			Tons
1961	59,930	6,489	20,574	84,438	36,623	142,573
1962	61,335	8,697	27,659	82,731	46,274	124,001
1963	59,603	11,644	28,866	84,363	47,138	127,904
1964	63,234	15,385	26,957	91,438	46,026	111,015
1965	64,694	17,057	40,656	96,161	44,041	111,159
1966	66,393	17,898	27,304	96,242	47,746	133,121
1967	71,882	25,458	20,495	86,947	44,701	219,434
1968	76,847	28,989	24,618	96,068	43,418	189,902
1969	76,314	27,817	39,521	102,042	42,981	194,828
1970	69,634	28,360	37,164	104,607	39,066	212,921

* Production of butter includes both creamery butter and farmers' butter.

Production of cheese is the weight of processed cheese produced plus the amount of raw cheese not further processed.

Production of meat is given in terms of dressed carcase weight and represents the production from animals slaughtered domestically but excludes the meat equivalent of live exports.

Pork includes sausages and other pork by-products as well as farm slaughterings for own consumption. Mutton and lamb also includes farm slaughterings for own consumption.