asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food in respect of each year from 1983 to 1988 inclusive the amount of EAGGF guidance fund money which has been allocated to the food processing industry; and if he will list the food processing projects which received funding and the amounts involved.
Written Answers. - EAGGF Fund Allocations.
65.
The following are the amounts allocated by the EAGGF guidance fund to projects involving the processing and marketing of agricultural and fish products:
|
Year |
Amount |
|
£m |
|
|
1983 |
14.7 |
|
1984 |
12.2 |
|
1985 |
17.8 |
|
1986 |
16.9 |
|
1987 |
20.4 |
|
1988 (to date) |
10.3 |
As the number of individual projects exceeds 200, a detailed list will be supplied directly to the Deputy.
66.
asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food where EAGGF guidance fund money was spent in 1987 and 1988; the sum allocated; the name and county of the recipient; and the purpose for which each sum was allocated.
The total number of recipients of aid under EAGGF guidance fund schemes is in excess of 100,000. Accordingly, it is not possible to supply the detailed information requested by the Deputy.
67.
asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if he will outline the payments made by the EC EAGGF guarantee fund to Ireland in 1987 and 1988 broken down by sub sectors i.e. beef, grain and storage.
The latest year for which detailed figures are available of expenditure in Ireland financed by the EC guarantee fund is 1987. The details for that year are as follows:
|
Item |
Amount |
|
(£m) |
|
|
Beef Sector |
471.7 |
|
Milk and Milk Products Sector |
333.1 |
|
Cereal Sector |
17.7 |
|
Other Sectors |
130.5 |
|
Monetary Compensatory Levies on Exports (all sectors) |
–39.3 |
|
Repayments to EC (all sectors) |
–4.9 |
|
Total |
908.8 |
The total includes some £78 million in respect of market intervention operations covering a range of costs such as handling, storage, beef deboning and the financing of the capital used to fund the stocks. The total net amount spent in the period January to September 1988 was approximately £630 million.