Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 October 2012

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Public Expenditure Allocation 2013: Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

11:00 am

Photo of Simon CoveneySimon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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It is difficult to be accurate because many of the schemes we operate are demand-led schemes. Under the targeted agricultural modernisation scheme, TAMS, we have to wait for applicants. If people do not draw down the money from a processing grant, we do not spend it then.