Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 25 June 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food
Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
2:00 am
Mr. Paul Savage:
We really do not know because the issue is around how many of the applications will actually convert into commitments and actual investments. We do not always know that. TAMS is one of those schemes where we do not have real sight of what we will pay upfront because we do not know how many of the approvals will actually convert into investments at the end of the day. That is why we give the general precautionary message in the most recent press release from the Minister that we may have to look at that because we have to manage the budget while at the same time, we have to try to anticipate as best we can what might be the likely conversion rate. That is a difficult thing to do.
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