Eoin Ryan
Ceist:111 Mr. E. Ryan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Forestry further to his reply to Parliamentary Question No. 38 of 28 March 1995, if there have been any further convictions under the Animal Remedies Act, 1993; if there has been any addition to the 25 cases under the Act that have been referred to the office of the Chief State Solicitor and the 30 cases under investigation by his Department; the amount and types of meat affected; if he will give figures in terms of both money and weight; if he will confirm and comment on media reports that a new and less easily detectable type of angel dust was found in meat to the value of nearly £100,000 seized at a meat plant in County Kildare on 24 April 1995; the numbers and ranks of personnel assigned to his Department's special taskforce on this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8206/95]