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

I think I answered a parliamentary question to the Deputy yesterday on this matter. I am a big admirer of the knowledge transfer programme. As Deputy McConalogue rightly acknowledges, budget 2020 provides for the existing liabilities to be met in 2020. The question is whether we will have a knowledge transfer scheme subsequent to that. That is a matter that will be considered in the context of the budgetary parameters within which the next scheme will be set. It is my ambition that we should have a successor programme. It is important for the knowledge that is transferred but also for the social engagement between farmers in the various disciplines that participate in the knowledge transfer scheme. In a profession that is practised mostly in isolation, that is as important as the knowledge that is transferred. It is my ambition, subject to budgetary constraints, to have a scheme to succeed the current one.

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