Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 4 December 2018

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary)

3:00 pm

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

I can get the Deputy a detailed breakdown on this. The Deputy will recall in my opening remarks I stated the Supplementary Estimate is a technical amendment, in fact, for an amount of €1,000. Although we are bringing forward a liability in 2019 of €15 million for the World Food Programme and approval for €23 million for the agri-environmental schemes and €7 million on the fodder side, all of that is in a way dwarfed by what is coming in by appropriations from the EU, some of which is 2017 funding. We do not control the dates on which this arrives. Some of it was expected in late 2017 and it did not arrive in until January 2018. I will get the Deputy the detail of the total of appropriations-in-aid. These are the EU co-funding aspects of some of the schemes that we administer. The EU funding arrives in at times that we do not control. Some of it does not happen neatly in financial years.

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