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- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Charlie McConalogue: Is the Deputy referring to subhead B12?
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Charlie McConalogue: That is the sheep improvement scheme, which is the five-year CAP scheme. It is the €12 per ewe scheme.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Charlie McConalogue: All applicants will be fully covered in that at €12 per ewe.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Charlie McConalogue: Last year was the first year of it, so that would have been an estimate last year. We would know what the outturn was, so there would probably be more certainty around exactly what the payment level was going to be for that this year. However, everybody who applied would have been accepted again and it will be fully covered again this year.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Charlie McConalogue: That relates to payments that have been coming out, the transitionary payments for the old GLAS that would have happened last year. There is a diminishing amount there.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Charlie McConalogue: Yes, 93% of the allocation for 2023 was the payment of the 2022 scheme year balance.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Charlie McConalogue: We did not spend it all last year so have a significant capital carry-over from last year into this year. If we get to the stage where we have all of that spent at the end of the year, it will be a sign of a very successful year for forestry.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Charlie McConalogue: No, that is the budget that would have been allocated-----
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Charlie McConalogue: We carried money over from that. We carried €40 million of that €98 million into this year.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Charlie McConalogue: No, €20 million of that. We spent €78 million last year.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Charlie McConalogue: I presume that also includes premiums and that for existing-----
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Charlie McConalogue: We have budgeted this year, I believe, for meeting our target.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Charlie McConalogue: My understanding is that is to cover us meeting our target for this year.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Charlie McConalogue: Yes.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Charlie McConalogue: The figure we have there includes the payment of premiums for people who had planted in previous years. Obviously the premium payment is much higher now than it would have been because we are into the new-----
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Charlie McConalogue: There is another €18 million in capital carryover that is to be added to that €97 million as well. The capital carryover from last year is in addition to that €97 million, I am told.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Charlie McConalogue: It is not showing on this because it has yet to be finalised but that €18 million of a carryover will be added to that.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Charlie McConalogue: I agree that this is a really important issue, and it is also a real disappointment that we have not been able to pay people before now. That has a real impact on farmers who are waiting for it because they are significant payments and really important to farmers. Last year was the first year for all of the new schemes, so everything had to start from scratch, including applications and all...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Charlie McConalogue: I do not have a member of the forestry team with me today but I will certainly get a direct response to the Deputy on that issue. I know that with regard to biosecurity, and particularly the threat from the bark beetle on the British isle, there is very strict assessment and scrutiny of any imports. They are only coming from the exclusive area in western Scotland but it is something we are...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2024
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (31 Jan 2024) Charlie McConalogue: Okay. The funding for the sheep is going to come from subhead B12 which has €23 million this year.