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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: They are still not sorted. There are 558 of them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food: Delays in Departmental Scheme Payments: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (25 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: There are 558 of them and I am asking whether, within the next two months, the Department will have them brought up to date. It is a simple yes-no answer.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (19 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: 343. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a decision will be made on a HAS application submitted by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33446/25]

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Are we doing it in sections, or what are we doing?

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It is up to the committee but we used to do it in sections before.

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Okay.

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I thank the Minister for coming in. I will ask quick-fire questions. Mr. Conroy will probably handle many of these. TB testing will be going up. Where will the money come from? What is going to suffer?

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Will the Minister get that money from the Department of public expenditure and reform or will it be taken out of the Department?

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Regarding the SBCI, am I right saying that loans for farmers will be down 25%?

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Will the Minister explain that to me?

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Are the figures down on it?

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: What am I looking at in C.10 on page 4 where it says SBCI loan scheme, -25%? What is that?

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Is there less money? Is it down 25%, "Yes" or "No"?

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It is down 25%.

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Okay. It is down 25%. That is grand. I am just trying to get through it. Can the Minister explain the carbon tax being 22.1% down? It is B13 on page 3.

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: So the Department only gets a fraction of the overall carbon tax.

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: Out of about €700 million or €800 million.

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: It was €623 million last year before the rise.

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I refer to agri schemes. The Department was not able to give out the money in 2023 and 2024. Did that money have to be given back to the Exchequer? There is extra money this year because more people are getting paid who were owed it. What is the story with that? I ask the Minister to explain the agri-environmental scheme and the 30.6%.

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Michael Fitzmaurice: I am asking if, at the end of the year, the Department has to give it back. Why would the Minister look for more money? The Department should be able to carry it over. Is that right?