Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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We will launch the SME loan scheme tomorrow. That is a €300 million loan scheme. A minimum of 40% of it is available to agri-food SMEs that can prove an exposure to Brexit to the satisfaction of the Strategic Banking Corporation of Ireland, SBCI. There will be a further tranche of loans which will include farmers, fishermen and primary producers. It will be the second half of 2018 before that is available.