Bobby Aylward (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I welcome Mr. Gleeson and his team and thank him for coming before us to be scrutinised as to how public money is being spent.

As a farmer, I naturally want to ask Mr. Gleeson about the beef exceptional aid measure scheme, BEAM, and the beef data and genomics programme, BDGP. Are those schemes fully subscribed, undersubscribed or oversubscribed? It would be interesting to know what funding is available to farmers. I want to ask first about the BEAM scheme.