Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The line I am pursuing is that the €175 million for the sheep welfare scheme and ANC payment has been sold to farmers as additional funds but will actually be paid for by way of a transitional arrangement by being taken out of the next rural development programme period. That is how the Minister's presentation stacks up. It is crystal clear that it will be part of the transitional arrangement into the next rural development programme. The Minister may want to go away to correct that and revert to us another day, but that is what is being presented to us today. It is part of the transitional money which will have to feed into the next rural development programme period post 2020 and into 2027.