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- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Charlie McConalogue: -----has the Minister already agreed that the banks will get all of that €25 million or could there be an underspend in that regard? To summarise, it is clear from what the Minister is saying to me, although he is not able to give me the details, that he has agreed with the banks and the SBCI that they would get €25 million. That figure is clear. It is also clear that the...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Charlie McConalogue: The Minister knows what he agreed with the banks.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Charlie McConalogue: My point is that the Minister could be clear on what he was getting for the €25 million he was paying the banks, but he cannot do that.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Charlie McConalogue: For how much? The Minister cannot tell me that.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Charlie McConalogue: The Minister is giving them €25 million but he does not know how much cheap credit he is purchasing in total.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Charlie McConalogue: The Minister was not able to tell us that. That is what I was asking the Minister but I presume that was the type of agreement that was done.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Charlie McConalogue: Is the beef data and genomics programme dealt with here?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Charlie McConalogue: The beef data and genomics programme, BDGP, relates to animal welfare under programme A, which is why I asked if it would be dealt with there. Currently, 24,500 farmers are signed up under the programme. The Minister indicated that €52 million is available for the programme in 2017. We have had a debate, and will probably debate it again, on the need for additional supports for the...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Charlie McConalogue: I will not get stuck into the issue of the underspend in terms of the Government's commitment. I have been very clear about the Minister following through on the Government's commitment to fund the rural development programme to the extent committed to across the various schemes when the rural development programme and the schemes were announced by the Minister's predecessor. However, that...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Charlie McConalogue: What was the commitment, as far as the Minister understands?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Charlie McConalogue: Yes, but-----
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Charlie McConalogue: My understanding is that when the beef data and genomics programme was announced and launched by the Government, a specific budget was allocated to it and, if I recall correctly, €250 million was to go towards the BDGP to facilitate 35,000 farmers being part of it. That was the Government's commitment. Perhaps I am wrong about that, and if I am wrong-----
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Charlie McConalogue: How wide?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Charlie McConalogue: No-----
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Charlie McConalogue: I am just putting it to the Minister what the Government committed to, that is, 35,000 farmers.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Charlie McConalogue: The Minister cannot clarify the actual figure committed to.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Charlie McConalogue: Can the Minister’s officials clarify the figure committed to under the BDGP? Specifically, within the €52 million for this year, can the Minister give us a breakdown-----
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Charlie McConalogue: I will ask the question about the €52 million another way. There are 24,500 farmers in the beef data and genomics programme at the moment. We are agreed on that. What is the projected cost of paying those 24,500 farmers this year?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Charlie McConalogue: I find it incongruous that we cannot be clear on this matter today, towards the end of March. We know 24,500 farmers are currently in the beef data and genomics programme. I am simply asking how much it will cost this very year, which we are a third of the way through, to pay these 24,500, and the Minister is not able to tell me.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Charlie McConalogue: If it will cost €48 million, that means that within the current beef data and genomics programme this year, €52 million is budgeted, which means there is €4 million, potentially, in the current budget to work with. Therefore, if the Minister were to reopen significantly the beef data and genomics programme this year, particularly if he were to reopen it for the 10,000...