Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There is an allocation in this year’s budget, and there will be in the years to come, for the running of the office. I do not have any plan to introduce a levy now, but the proposed Bill does allow for that to be the case in future if running costs required it to be done. My preference, however, is that we would run this agency out of Departmental allocations and funding. Having said that, though, this proposed legislation does provide that there can be a levy, not on farmers but on processors.