Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 9 November 2022
Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Estimates for Public Services 2022
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary)
Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
Well, okay. We will dispute this point and we will return to it, no doubt.
Turning to my two final brief questions, regarding the outlay for the sheep welfare scheme, I see this has been revised downwards to €18 million. This is again a payment that has remained static. In the indicative allocations for 2023-27, this area has been allocated €20 million annually. By my calculations, this will be €8 million shy of what will be required for the increase in payments from €10 to €12 per ewe over the next five years. Has the Government accounted for this? Does it expect to increase the allocation to this scheme or is it that there is an expectation there will be a drop in numbers?
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