Destinations of live cattle exports
Deasy asked where the 322,000 cattle exported live in 1986 went and whether some returned from Northern Ireland for slaughter. The Minister said 70,000 to 80,000 went North and referred to efforts to dismantle monetary compensatory amounts.
The Minister said that 322,000 cattle had been exported live in 1986. Can he tell us the destinations of those cattle? Does he agree that probably the bulk of those cattle were exported to Northern Ireland to get the benefit of MCA payments but ended up being brought back to the Republic to be slaughtered?
Comment on this
A percentage of cattle went to Northern Ireland. The information I have is that 70,000 or 80,000 of the 322,000 went to the North. I should like to draw the attention of the House to the good work which Minister O'Kennedy is doing in the price negotiations in relation to dismantling the MCAs.
