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

The allocation under the ANC and the sheep welfare scheme is part of our commitment under the original rural development programme. The overspend is our analysis across all of the schemes in terms of the profiled expenditure. In so far as we can anticipate it accurately, it reflects at this stage an overspend of €104 million. When one adds in the ANC, which is a rural development scheme but applied for annually rather than on a five-year contract basis like AEOS, GLAS and BGDP, the overall overexpenditure is over €104 million.