Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We had an initial engagement with the farming organisations to outline the potential measures that will apply to the new sheep welfare scheme as well as the suckler or calf welfare scheme. I want to make sure those schemes are as practical as possible for farmers. Over the next few weeks, we will clarify what those measures and steps are. That extra budget payment for sheep, which is in addition to the current sheep improvement scheme, will, as I said, see a doubling of the old payment from €10 in 2022 to €20 in 2024. It will be available for every ewe for a farmer who applies for that funding this year.