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 Michael CreedMichael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

If we want to spend the €52 million, it would have to be later this year - as soon as possible. As I have said previously in the Dáil Chamber, we are working through a full overview of our rural development programme commitments through the lifetime of the programme to see what scope, if any, is there. I can confirm without having full sight of all the details that the scope is extremely limited, as I said, notwithstanding myths being perpetuated to the contrary. If there is scope, it is a question of where we use it to best effect.

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