Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We will not leave a brown cent unspent under the rural development programme. As I said in my initial reply, I am considering the latitude that might be available to reopen the beef data genomics programme. I accept that the beef sector is having a particularly difficult period. That is why we are taking a multifaceted approach that involves live export opportunities, calf export opportunities, new market access and the €150 million loans fund. One of the initiatives we are undertaking involves re-examining the scope for new entrants into the beef data genomics programme within the rural development programme.

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