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Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (22 Jun 2016)

Pat Deering: I wish to ask two brief questions. There was an extra allocation for the commission for the economic development of rural areas, CEDRA, this year. What will it be spent on? Regarding late payments under the basic payments scheme last year, one of the big bugbears for people who had an issue and who could not contact the Department was when there was a change of staff. Will that issue be...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (22 Jun 2016)

Pat Deering: Does that mean that there will be €52 million in addition to the €17 million from 2015 available for the following year?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (22 Jun 2016)

Pat Deering: Does the Minister mean including the €17 million or plus the €17 million?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (22 Jun 2016)

Pat Deering: There is not a saving then as such. There is a saving to the Department but the money is being taken out of the scheme.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (22 Jun 2016)

Pat Deering: I call Deputy Cahill and then Deputy Pringle.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (22 Jun 2016)

Pat Deering: Okay.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (22 Jun 2016)

Pat Deering: May I request a brief note on that point for the benefit of the committee?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (22 Jun 2016)

Pat Deering: I ask Deputy Jackie Cahill to be brief, as I want to move on to the next programme.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (22 Jun 2016)

Pat Deering: It comes up under programme C. We will take it briefly.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (22 Jun 2016)

Pat Deering: If the Minister has some up-to-date information on that issue, whether it be in respect of TAMS, the beef genomics scheme or whatever, he might forward it to the committee and we will circulate it to the members.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (22 Jun 2016)

Pat Deering: Does it deal mainly with the schemes?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (22 Jun 2016)

Pat Deering: I call Deputy McConalogue for a brief question.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (22 Jun 2016)

Pat Deering: We will now move on to programme B. We have covered a lot of ground already but there are some specific areas in programme B that we have not discussed yet. I ask the Minister to introduce the programme and then members can ask the appropriate questions.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (22 Jun 2016)

Pat Deering: Do members have any questions on programme B?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (22 Jun 2016)

Pat Deering: I ask the Minister to introduce programme C, after which we will have questions. We have covered a lot of this area already. We will try to address what we have not covered.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (22 Jun 2016)

Pat Deering: Let us move on to the other issues. Deputy McConalogue had a query.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (22 Jun 2016)

Pat Deering: The next item is programme D.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (22 Jun 2016)

Pat Deering: The Minister has discussed this area already.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (22 Jun 2016)

Pat Deering: I invite the Minister to discuss programme E.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (22 Jun 2016)

Pat Deering: On behalf of the select committee, I thank the Minister and his officials for assisting the committee in its consideration of the Revised Estimate and dealing comprehensively with the questions of members. Earlier the committee agreed to invite the Minister to a meeting of the joint committee in the autumn to have an exchange of views on the emerging position in respect of what will happen...