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Environment

Does Northern Ireland produce enough to feed 10 million people?
16 November 2021
The Northern Ireland agricultural sector produces enough protein to meet the needs of 10m adults. However, production is only sufficient to meet the energy requirements

Economy

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Environment

Thousands of tonnes of slurry for pork for China?
16 September 2019
The export of 1,450 pigs would represent 1,000 tonnes of slurry (based on an estimate of 957,495 tonnes p.a.). Tonnage figures for pork exports from

Elections

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Europe

Does the EU send NI €500m annually?
13 May 2019
The €500 million figure quoted by the SDLP is substantiated by European Commission figures for EU regional funding of Northern Ireland. However, this is not

Economy

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Europe

Do our farmers receive 62% of income from EU?
5 February 2019
This claim is accurate. The average payment received from the EU (£27,648) in 2016-17 represented 62.4% of total farm income (£44,305). This ratio fluctuates with

Economy

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Elections

Were “City Deals” part of DUP’s Confidence and Supply Agreement?
1 November 2018
UPDATED 1/11/2018 – The rating was “INACCURATE” in an earlier version of this fact check. A previous version of this article did not include the

Europe

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Law

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Peace

Are there 208 Ireland-Northern Ireland border crossings?
8 June 2018
It is extremely difficult to accurately establish the exact number of border crossings, as many informal routes have been established since border infrastructure was removed