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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: No. I had a meeting with the team last week and I expect the budget to be fully accounted for. We were, thankfully, able to accept everybody in but we are at the budget in terms of-----
- 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 about 19,000 at the moment, roughly.
- 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 are a few-----
- 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, with the 50% extra increase we received for CAP agreed at Government level, we profile the different schemes. We have a budget the SCEP scheme. I met with the team last week to look at what the likely projections are around this. At the moment it appears to be heading to be on the button in terms of CAP. However, if I can free up any more money and if there are any new entrants, I...
- 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 had €249 million at the end of last year. We are projecting that at the start of this year but everybody who applies will get it in the same way as before. We may need to adjust it. It is a set payment every year for the full five years. We expect to manage the budget around that but there is no change 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: 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-----