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Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Bobby Aylward: I want to ask about the forgotten farmers, as they are known. I have been lobbied by several people who are not in the system at all who got into farming late and did not qualify because of age and had not the qualifications in respect of land at the time. They are always trying to make the case that they are forgotten about. They call themselves the forgotten farmers. Is there anything...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Bobby Aylward: It is basically the same answer. Money would have to be taken out of the existing payments. Is that the way this would be looked at?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Bobby Aylward: I want to ask about the farmer retirement scheme that was in place. To me, it was one of the best schemes to entice older farmers to hand over their farms to their children and so on. Could it be looked at again in the future? I know it comes down to funding but it was a very good scheme and it was taken up and used. It brought a lot of young farmers into the system. Could it be looked...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Bobby Aylward: That is right.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Bobby Aylward: I have two more questions. I want to ask about the credit balance. The appropriation account document for 2015 gives details of €3.828 million in 2015 and nil in 2014 in respect of the beef data and genomics scheme. What does it mean by nil in 2014? It is on page 12. What is that about?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Page 12 under other credit balances. Paragraph 2.6.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Why is there a nil?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Where did that money go or where was it allocated afterwards?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Did it just carry into 2015? I am just wondering where that figure for the genomics scheme went. That is why I am asking about it.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Why is it down in 2014 as nil?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Why print it out at all then? Why show it at all?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Okay. I wish to comment on the beef data and genomics scheme, which I am in myself. I have raised this with the Minister and have spoken to the Department about it previously. We all tag calves at birth. I am talking about particular females for the genomics scheme. One uses one ear for a bovine viral diarrhoea, BVD, tag and one takes a sample. However, one is also putting a tag on the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Bobby Aylward: That is it.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Bobby Aylward: I am talking about convenience and animal welfare.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Bobby Aylward: I presume that when we are rid of BVD then the BVDP tag would go also, once we have clearance of the disease?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Bobby Aylward: So there is no reason the Department could not have done the same with the genome tags?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Bobby Aylward: My last question relates to the reported expense of €4.328 million for the Haulbowline site in Cork. What is the situation there? The clean up of the site has been a subject for a long time. The proposed expenditure for 2015 was €4.328 million. Was that money spent? It says in the report that it was deferred. What does the deferral mean?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Is the site owned by the State?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Bobby Aylward: I know.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Bobby Aylward: Are there are penalties for the likes of Bord na gCon and the Irish Horse Board for when they -----