Martin Heydon (Kildare South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

This has been a long-standing commitment where I want to put all the legacy issues to bed. Since the Department was first approached with regard to the group commonly referred to as forgotten farmers, who are defined as young farmers who were under the age of 40 in 2015 and established their holdings prior to 2008, I opened a public consultation process for people to put themselves forward. That process has concluded and we are reviewing the results. I have next steps and an allocation in my budget this year of €5 million to address the number of people who are impacted and to draw a line under this issue once and for all. I am not sure yet whether that €5 million will be enough to get everyone resolved this year. If it is more, I will have to try to find more money in next year's budget and to do it over two years.