Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 September 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Vote 30 - Update on Pre-Budget and Policy Issues: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine

5:15 pm

Photo of Pat DeeringPat Deering (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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The application process seems to be very bureaucratic. This is what I am hearing back. The Minister said himself that many approvals have not resulted in drawdowns. Not just in the dairy sector, but also in the sheep fencing/mobile handling equipment scheme, for example; from what I hear back, this is particularly bad. There seems to be an awful lot of red tape between the results and the drawdown not happening.