Dáil Éireann - Volume 294 - 23 November, 1976 - Written Answers.


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Dáil Éireann - Volume 294 - 23 November, 1976

Written Answers. - Agricultural Statistics.

Mr. B. Desmond Mr. B. Desmond

458

[458] 88. Mr. B. Desmond asked the Taoiseach if he will furnish details of agricultural income and expenses for the latest year for which figures are available and the number of males engaged in farm work in the form of a reply of 8th February, 1967.

The Taoiseach Liam Cosgrave

The Taoiseach: The details requested by the Deputy are shown in the following tables for 1975 along with revised data for 1974.

A Net Output and Expenses of Agriculture, 1974 and 1975

Item	1974	1975
Item	£ million
Net Output of Agriculture (including value of changes in livestock numbers)	463.1	659
Expenses of agriculture:
Land Annuities	2.2	2
Rates	16.3	16
Wages and Salaries	33.2	38
Repairs to machinery, spare parts, etc.	10.4
Petrol, fuel, oil, etc.	18.6
Depreciation of machinery and implements	38.9	135*
Transport and marketing	10.3
Other	29.3
less Total expenses	159.2	191
plus Subsidies not related to sales (beef incentive subsidy, mountain sheep subsidies, etc.)	17.9	15
Income from self-employment and other trading income	321.8	483

*Separate details not yet available for 1975.

B Males engaged in Farmwork in June, 1974 and 1975

Item	1974*	1975*
Number of male family workers on farms	210,900	209,300
Number of male employees on farms	33,900	33,500
Total number of males at work on farms	244,800	242,800

*Preliminary figures.

Mr. B. Desmond Mr. B. Desmond

459

89. Mr. B. Desmond asked the Taoiseach if he will furnish particulars of farm employment, full-time employees, part-time employees and [459] farm tractors in each county on 1st June, 1975.

The Taoiseach Liam Cosgrave

The Taoiseach: The latest information available at county level relates to June, 1973, and was given in reply to Question No. 118 of 19th February, 1975—Official Report, Volume 278, No. 5, columns 868-870. The corresponding information in respect of June, 1975, will be available in early 1977.

Dáil Éireann 294 Written Answers. Agricultural Statistics.

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