Claire Kerrane (Roscommon-Galway, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate and acknowledge that the Minister has committed to this group of farmers that he will come up with a scheme that will financially support them, given they did lose out. At one point, the scheme was to be prepared in the first quarter of 2023. It was then to be published in May 2023. The system was being put together in February, and it is now April 2024. In a number of weeks, we will be going into summer recess. We will be coming back for the budget. By the sounds of things, there is no detailed scheme in place with regard to what this will look like. There is no funding in place either, and the Minister has committed that it will be done before the end of this term of Government, which is now a matter of months away. This cohort of farmers needs certainty. Is the Minister committing here today on the floor of the Dáil that the scheme will be in place and that they will be able to access it between now and February of next year?

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