Food marketing expenditure by sector
Bermingham requested annual EEC and State food-marketing expenditure since 1975 for dairy, beef and sheepmeat, and pigmeat; the Minister referred him to a tabular statement to be circulated.
asked the Minister for Agriculture the EEC and State expenditure on food marketing for each year since 1975 in respect of each of the following sectors: (i) dairying, (ii) beef and sheepmeat and (iii) pigmeat.
Comment on this
The information sought by the Deputy is given in the form of a tabular statement which, with the permission of the Ceann Comhairle, will be circulated with the Official Report.
Following is the statement:
EEC/State Expenditure on Food Marketing since 1975
Notes:
(i) Expenditure on food marketing in the dairying sector over the years in question has been largely concentrated in the area of consumer subsidies on butter and liquid milk on the home market. Funds have also been dispensed from the proceeds of the EEC milk co-responsibility levy on product development, the promotion of consumption on the home market and market development abroad.
(ii) No EEC expenditure specifically on marketing has occurred in this sector. National expenditure on the promotion of domestic and export markets has been incurred through a grant-in-aid to Córas Beostoic agus Feola. 1980 was the first year of operation of a restructured CBF — a statutory body financed both by grant-in-aid and producer levy.
(iii) No EEC or State expenditure was incurred specifically for marketing in this sector but an amount of £200,000 is to be paid from the Exchequer to the Pigs and Bacon Commission in 1981 for the promotion of pigmeat markets.
(iv) The above figures do not include any expenditure from the grant of £75,000 provided from the Exchequer in 1980 to finance export promotional measures for Irish food products generally by the Agricultural Exports Co-ordinating Group, which is representative of the Department of Agriculture, Córas Tráchtála and the main agricultural exporting agencies.
In addition to the above expenditure funds are allocated each year from both the Industrial Development Authority and the EEC towards the cost of investment projects on marketing and processing of agricultural products. It is not possible to isolate allocations for marketing only. Details are as follows:
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