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:

It relates to future applications. The Minister clarified and confirmed that all eligible applications in tranches 6, 7 and 8 will be approved. It is from this tranche moving forward. That is why the Minister made the announcement at the start of the tranche so that people knew in advance that it would be a potential feature this time around. He is giving notice that we do have to keep an eye on the overall budget in the CSP. It was done in TAMS 2 over a number of tranches, again with a mind to the overall budget to try to make sure it was managed properly over the period. It was simply a means of flagging that we have had high response and approval rates so far; three times what we would have done over the first eight tranches in TAMS 2. That does mean we have to be prudent. We have to watch the expenditure profile over the next number of years. This may involve us considering the application of ranking and selection. I will hand over to Mr. Morrin to deal with the other points on the satellite inspections.

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