Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 21 March 2017
Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised)
4:00 pm
Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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If it will cost €48 million, that means that within the current beef data and genomics programme this year, €52 million is budgeted, which means there is €4 million, potentially, in the current budget to work with. Therefore, if the Minister were to reopen significantly the beef data and genomics programme this year, particularly if he were to reopen it for the 10,000 additional farmers, which I am saying was committed to at the start, he would have to find additional funds to do so. It would not be provided for in the current €52 million. He would only have potentially-----