Agriculture Schemes

Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 28 April 2021

Wednesday, 28 April 2021

Ceisteanna (1147)

Catherine Murphy

Ceist:

1147. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of seizures of boldoteX and boldote 50 by inspectors from his Department in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form; the quantity and county in which the substances were seized; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that boldoteX and boldote 50 contain boldenone; and the location in which these substances are stored and or have been disposed of. [21767/21]

Freagraí scríofa

Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine

In relation to substances seized directly by the Department's officers or substances identified by Customs and passed directly to Department investigators, records of these are not readily available.

However, I can confirm that a single item, identified as boldoteX, was seized in Co. Tipperary and submitted to the State Laboratory for analysis on 6th May 2020. The item has remained there since.