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Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme (10 Nov 2020)

Matt Carthy: 800. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the estimated amount of funding that will be allocated to the areas of natural constraint scheme in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34695/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme (10 Nov 2020)

Matt Carthy: 801. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the convergence of BPS payments will continue during the CAP transitionary period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34696/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Organic Farming Scheme (10 Nov 2020)

Matt Carthy: 802. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of new entrants likely to be permitted into the organics farming scheme; the process that will be used to determine successful applicants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34697/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Environmental Efficiency Scheme (10 Nov 2020)

Matt Carthy: 803. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the deadline will be extended for the submission of dung samples under the Beef Environmental Efficiency Programme – Suckler, BEEPS, scheme due to the unavailability of sampling kits; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34698/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Data and Genomics Programme (10 Nov 2020)

Matt Carthy: 804. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if an additional period was provided for farmers who failed to meet the 50% female replacement criteria in the Beef Data and Genomics Programme, BDGP, scheme by the 31 October deadline; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34699/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farms Data (10 Nov 2020)

Matt Carthy: 826. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views that the findings of the Teagasc National Farm Survey that 41% of cattle and sheep farms are non-viable farm business without additional off- farm employment; his plans to address this position; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35368/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Beef Industry (10 Nov 2020)

Matt Carthy: 827. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to provide new additional funding to promote a suckler beef brand; the amount of funding he will commit in 2021 for this purpose; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35369/20]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Farm Partnerships (10 Nov 2020)

Matt Carthy: 828. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of the arbitration process in respect of the Coillte farm partnership scheme; the reason for any delay in this regard; if all discovery documents have been provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35370/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (10 Nov 2020)

Matt Carthy: 838. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if she has met formally with the chief executive officer of the Charities Regulator within the past three months; when she will next speak formally with the CEO; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34693/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: LEADER Programmes (10 Nov 2020)

Matt Carthy: 850. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the funding that will be allocated to LEADER projects in 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35371/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: LEADER Programmes (10 Nov 2020)

Matt Carthy: 851. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if adequate funding will be provided for the delivery and administration of the LEADER programme in 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35372/20]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: LEADER Programmes (10 Nov 2020)

Matt Carthy: 852. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development when the interim national rural development plan will be agreed and published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35373/20]

Finance Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (5 Nov 2020)

Matt Carthy: This is the Finance Bill which followed on from the budget. We will recall the budget announcement when we heard one Government spokesman person after another cry out that this was the largest budget in the history of the State. We were all deafened by the assertions of that statement and yet it is ironic that that statement has been met by the numbers of people who have told us in the days...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2019
Chapter 17 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (5 Nov 2020)

Matt Carthy: I welcome Mr. Moran and his team. I will take up where he finished and thank all his staff and everybody in the Department who have been working during what has been a very challenging six or seven months at this stage. There is a lot of interest, as Mr. Moran knows, in the Apple escrow account and how it is managed. The sums of money involved are beyond people's imaginations. They are...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2019
Chapter 17 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (5 Nov 2020)

Matt Carthy: I was talking about withholding tax.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2019
Chapter 17 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (5 Nov 2020)

Matt Carthy: I understand the expense that was incurred was in or around €2 million.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2019
Chapter 17 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (5 Nov 2020)

Matt Carthy: That was in 2019 in respect of the withholding tax. It seems strange because this is essentially in respect of the payment of experts, legal and otherwise.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2019
Chapter 17 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (5 Nov 2020)

Matt Carthy: I would have imagined that one of those experts would have been able to say that tax must be paid on their fees.

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2019
Chapter 17 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (5 Nov 2020)

Matt Carthy: Part of the fear that people have is that because this fund is so large that sums of millions can be described as relatively small, pound signs will be shining on lots of the usual suspect, if you like. I wonder has Mr. Moran any fears because of the way in which the fund is managed. As he says, it is almost in the ether so nobody knows who is losing at the end of the day, whether it is...

Public Accounts Committee: 2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2019
Chapter 17 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund (5 Nov 2020)

Matt Carthy: Companies and individuals are paid directly out of the fund for a raft of different services. I understand that William Fry, for example, has received approximately €3 million. The current Attorney General had received €612,000 up to March of this year. Those are substantial sums of money. Could Mr. Moran give an indication of the type of work that would be conducted in...