Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 21 March 2017

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised)

4:00 pm

Photo of Charlie McConalogueCharlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

If it will cost €48 million, that means that within the current beef data and genomics programme this year, €52 million is budgeted, which means there is €4 million, potentially, in the current budget to work with. Therefore, if the Minister were to reopen significantly the beef data and genomics programme this year, particularly if he were to reopen it for the 10,000 additional farmers, which I am saying was committed to at the start, he would have to find additional funds to do so. It would not be provided for in the current €52 million. He would only have potentially-----

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