Claire Kerrane (Roscommon-Galway, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

On the same page of the documentation, under the number of participants in the suckler carbon efficiency programme, SCEP, the 2023 target has been reduced for 2024. Some farmers have left that scheme and some farmers have been put out of that scheme based on the criteria as it is, so that is fine. With regard to the 2024 figure of 17,100, if and should some tweaks be made to the SCEP, which we have been hearing, will it be possible for farmers to go back into that scheme or does the Minister expect that number to remain reduced at approximately 17,000 in that scheme?