Mr. Eoin Ryan:

I can provide information on the charities the Minister provides funding to. For instance, last year, €5.8 million was provided by the Minister to 99 animal welfare charities, and as Senator Daly said, we expect an imminent announcement on the 2023 animal welfare grants. To give the Deputy an idea of scale, in 2018 it was €2.7 million, and it went up to €2.9 million in 2019.