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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) Michael Creed: I did not commit 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) Michael Creed: I have always said at this committee that I am open to reopening the scheme. I have never mentioned a figure.
- 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) Michael Creed: In response to the Deputy's question on Bord Bia, if one takes the EU funds of €1.6 million and the €2 million extra, the cumulative figure is €4.5 million above the 2016 provisional figures. It is significant. I have no doubt that if we had more money Bord Bia could spend it. However, in terms of a start on the challenge we face, that is good. The staff of Bord Bia...
- 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) Michael Creed: I will come back to the Deputy on that issue as I do not have the answer but I will get an answer to his question. In response to the Deputy's question on the Teagasc figures, there was an extraordinary bulge in 2015 because of the new young farmer and the national reserve applications. The numbers will be slightly less than that but they are approaching more manageable proportions now. ...
- 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) Michael Creed: Yes.
- 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) Michael Creed: Those figures would have been computed in consultation with Teagasc. They would be Teagasc figures.
- 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) Michael Creed: What is that for?
- 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) Michael Creed: It is not a cut. It is €10.5 million which is the same as last 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) Michael Creed: On the latter point I have been in contact with Commissioner Andriukaitis and my departmental officials have also been in contact with the Commission on the matter. We are awaiting a response. I do not have the regional breakdown on Teagasc. However, I know that the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform has recently given approval to Teagasc for 15 new temporary posts to deal with...
- 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) Michael Creed: The challenge on the fisheries side is particularly acute because we compete for the resource across the European Union. Much of the competition for the fishing resource is in UK territorial waters. In the event of a hard Brexit and we are locked out of UK territorial waters, displacement of fishing effort into the remaining EU waters, particularly off our west coast, would be intense and...
- 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) Michael Creed: I do not propose to comment in detail on that. We have just concluded a consultation process and we received quite a number of submissions from various interested parties. Those submissions are being considered by the Department and we will make a decision on the matter in due course.
- 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) Michael Creed: This relates to a 5% retention by the Commission of rural development programme, RDP, funding. The refund to us is not something that we can anticipate in any given year. While it came through significantly higher than what we had budgeted for in 2016, next year it could be much lower. Actually, sorry, that is wrong. This refers to the 2007 to 2013 RDP and the Commission's final...
- 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) Michael Creed: Yes, on the entire programme.
- 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) Michael Creed: Yes.
- 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) Michael Creed: The Commission retains that sum until it closes out all of the schemes from an audit and inspection point of view.
- 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) Michael Creed: Our anticipation was that the refund would not come until 2017 but it came in from the Commission in the final days of 2016.
- 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) Michael Creed: Yes.
- 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) Michael Creed: It is an accounting process. The EU, until it signs off on the various schemes, retains 5%. In closing out the 2007 to 2013 scheme, the refund was expected in 2017 but it came during the last days of 2016. To take the example of a scheme like REPS, we would have paid out the funding under that scheme. The EU would have withheld 5% and once the EU had gone through its processes, it would...
- 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) Michael Creed: We had no certainty as to when the Commission would pay us. If we had put a figure into the 2016 Estimates and the refund had not come through, we would have been before the select committee with a Supplementary Estimate. It is accountancy. It is money that we had paid out to individual applicants but which the Commission only refunded to us once it has signed off on our books.
- 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) Michael Creed: Yes.