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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)
Michael Creed: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)
Michael Creed: It is entirely funded by the Exchequer and it is approved. The ANC is a rural development programme and it is open to the State to fund at a higher rate. We have put additional money into the ANC and we have put additional Exchequer funds into the RDP to fund a sheep welfare scheme.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)
Michael Creed: It is. The rural development programme is part of the budgetary process.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)
Michael Creed: On an annual basis, we have to secure approval for that. We have secured a commitment for the sheep welfare scheme and for the ANC. The premise of all of this was that we were not going to draw down the funding available to us in Europe. The point I make is that every last penny will be drawn down and we have put more money into the RDP than was necessary to draw down every last penny to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)
Michael Creed: I do not know if the line the Deputy is pursuing is a criticism of us putting more money in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)
Michael Creed: The allocation under the ANC and the sheep welfare scheme is part of our commitment under the original rural development programme. The overspend is our analysis across all of the schemes in terms of the profiled expenditure. In so far as we can anticipate it accurately, it reflects at this stage an overspend of €104 million. When one adds in the ANC, which is a rural development...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)
Michael Creed: I gave that figure earlier. It is at least €50 million.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)
Michael Creed: I will have to get the details. I understand it relates mainly to GLAS 3 applicants who will be rolling over into the new rural development programme.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)
Michael Creed: It is that part of GLAS, as AEOS and REPS were in the last one. If one joined in 2017-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)
Michael Creed: What is the Deputy's point?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)
Michael Creed: My understanding is that it was originally envisaged that the Burren scheme would come in under measure 10. The Commission advised subsequently that it was more appropriate under measure 16 under the rural development programme or it might be the other way around. The funding was always envisaged for the Burren but it had to be moved from one measure to another.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)
Michael Creed: My information is that it depends on the profile of the applications. It depends on the size of the holding and the number of animals but this is the level of expenditure envisaged from the profile of farmers that we have in the programme. If we had more farmers in it we would be further overspending on the scheme.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)
Michael Creed: Would have been a further overspend.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)
Michael Creed: Not necessarily. Depending on when people joined the scheme some may have, if their five year contract went post 2020. If we had received the number of applications that we had the ambition for and the profile was similar to that of those who did apply, it is highly likely we would have a significant overspend.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)
Michael Creed: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)
Michael Creed: It was late 2016. They came into the scheme in 2017.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)
Michael Creed: Some will, yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)
Michael Creed: Yes. They are on a six year contract.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)
Michael Creed: Six years so some of them will-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)
Michael Creed: I am not sure if it has been communicated to the committee yet but I am holding a stakeholder engagement on 4 July in which the committee and all of the party spokespersons are invited to participate. There is no difficulty with either I or my officials coming in before the summer recess.