Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank Deputy Fitzmaurice. On the agri-environmental schemes, there is a change there from €160 million to €133 million. This relates to demand-led funding, especially with the soil sampling scheme and also the TAMS renewable energy scheme, a lot of which is around the solar. We will be announcing that in the next week or two, but more of the funding will be next year rather than this year. Within that as well we have done some reprofiling. We have allocated extra funding of €4 million to organics from this line and also an extra €6.5 million to the straw incorporation measure on top of the €10 million already allocated to that to reflect the support farmers need given the very difficult harvest and growing season.

On ACRES, we had a profile of €160 million and we are expecting that will spend €146 million. We obviously gave some extensions in relation to results, scorecards, which were necessary to facilitate the 46,000 we had-----