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Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: How much is that?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: That is the Enterprise Ireland capital investment scheme in the processing sector. We had allocated an expected spend of just over €30 million for this year. However, this scheme is demand-led and led by the number of applicants for it. It will, therefore, not be fully expended. Obviously, we allocated that as an opportunity. Some of it may carry into next year, but it is entirely...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Which number is the Deputy referring to?

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: This was a typo. It was an administrative error when it was first done, so we are correcting that.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: It was an administrative error. Basically, the Estimate had been for €25 million, but that figure was an error at that stage. It should not have been that. It should have been €17 million. We are correcting that now in the Supplementary Estimate. It was a typographical error.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: It refers to receipts from inspection fees at meat plants. There was an error when it was presented.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: There is no change there. It is what was expected. There was an error with the figure when it was presented.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2023: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (22 Nov 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Maybe next year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2023: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (22 Nov 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: It is a 4% increase on last year. As with any sector, it is growing and dealing with inflationary challenges and the challenges that evolve from year to year. To be clear, like every other sector, most will be looking for more of an increase than what we can provide. For both the thoroughbred industry and the greyhound industry, the horse and greyhound fund is important to make sure they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2023: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (22 Nov 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Is the Deputy talking about the horse racing sector in particular?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2023: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (22 Nov 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The prize money certainly does. That is important for races operating on tracks like Roscommon, to attract horses and ensure prize money is spread across horses of all grades and types. The capital funding will also come through this fund to HRI. Since between 2015 and 2023, the total capital grants through HRI were just above €35 million. Through partnering with local tracks, that...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: E3 on page 12.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: E13 relates to receipts from the European Commission. They will not be received in 2023 and we have been expecting that. That is what I referred to in terms of many of the appropriations that were made. E13 relates to AFC money and E20 relates to the fisheries money. The appropriations laid will come in next year instead of this year. That is what that is.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: As Deputy Kehoe is aware, we have a meeting with the environment Commissioner tomorrow. We are meeting the Taoiseach and the water quality monitoring group that I set up specifically on the issue of the implementation of our derogation. It is a challenging situation in terms of the adjustment for farmers who would have been between 220 kg and 250 kg of nitrogen for their stocking rate. ...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Advance payments to farmers under the ANC scheme commenced on 17 October and continued in two payments up to 9 November. Currently, there is an eligible population of 103,000 farmers, of whom 92,000, or 89%, have received the advance payment. Under the basic income support for sustainability scheme, the number of eligible farmers is 117,000, of whom 109,000, or 92.5%, have received an...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: A payment run happens pretty much every week but there is none this week. The next one will be on 1 and 2 December. There is no payment run on advance payments this week because we are now starting to pay the balancing payments to those who already got their advance payment. The two processes cannot run at the same time. Otherwise, we would be doing a run this week as well. Anybody who...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: Yes. Those who get cleared between now and next week will be paid next week. We are continuing to clear and resolve claims every week. We will keep paying weekly until the end of this year and into the start of next year.

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform is managing that fund and I do not have the figure. My Department is, by and large, exceeding the figures we set, both in fisheries and agriculture. We are by far the largest spending Department in respect of the fund and we have worked hard to pull as much funding as possible out of it. The Department of...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: We are looking to spend as much as we possibly can. Even in the Supplementary Estimate today, I am bringing extra money into some lines under which we think we can spend more. Where more can be spent, we will spend it. However, there is no possibility of new schemes because the window for any lines of expenditure has passed. It is simply no longer possible to introduce and operate any new...

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Supplementary) (22 Nov 2023)

Charlie McConalogue: The OPW is delivering the project on our behalf. A lot of the allocation of €68 million is for what is already delivered. I do not have an up-to-date note on what is outstanding. The figure represents our allocation towards the aspects of the project relating to my Department. I now have some additional information to hand. There are significant enabling works in the overall plan...