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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)

Michael Creed: The allocation under the ANC and the sheep welfare scheme is part of our commitment under the original rural development programme. The overspend is our analysis across all of the schemes in terms of the profiled expenditure. In so far as we can anticipate it accurately, it reflects at this stage an overspend of €104 million. When one adds in the ANC, which is a rural development...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)

Michael Creed: I gave that figure earlier. It is at least €50 million.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)

Michael Creed: I will have to get the details. I understand it relates mainly to GLAS 3 applicants who will be rolling over into the new rural development programme.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)

Michael Creed: It is that part of GLAS, as AEOS and REPS were in the last one. If one joined in 2017-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)

Michael Creed: What is the Deputy's point?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)

Michael Creed: My understanding is that it was originally envisaged that the Burren scheme would come in under measure 10. The Commission advised subsequently that it was more appropriate under measure 16 under the rural development programme or it might be the other way around. The funding was always envisaged for the Burren but it had to be moved from one measure to another.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)

Michael Creed: My information is that it depends on the profile of the applications. It depends on the size of the holding and the number of animals but this is the level of expenditure envisaged from the profile of farmers that we have in the programme. If we had more farmers in it we would be further overspending on the scheme.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)

Michael Creed: Would have been a further overspend.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)

Michael Creed: Not necessarily. Depending on when people joined the scheme some may have, if their five year contract went post 2020. If we had received the number of applications that we had the ambition for and the profile was similar to that of those who did apply, it is highly likely we would have a significant overspend.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)

Michael Creed: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)

Michael Creed: It was late 2016. They came into the scheme in 2017.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)

Michael Creed: Some will, yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)

Michael Creed: Yes. They are on a six year contract.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)

Michael Creed: Six years so some of them will-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Rural Development Programme: Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (19 Jun 2018)

Michael Creed: I am not sure if it has been communicated to the committee yet but I am holding a stakeholder engagement on 4 July in which the committee and all of the party spokespersons are invited to participate. There is no difficulty with either I or my officials coming in before the summer recess.

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Poultry Industry (19 Jun 2018)

Michael Creed: I propose to take Questions Nos. 431, 435, 437 to 439, inclusive, and 444 together. The collection, transport, handling, treatment, transformation, processing, storage, placing on the market, distribution, and use and disposal of all animal products (ABP) including poultry litter is governed by the EU animal By-product Regulation (EC) No. 1069 of 2009 and Regulation (EU) No. 142 of 2011...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Diseases (19 Jun 2018)

Michael Creed: I propose to take Questions Nos. 432 to 434, inclusive, together. Botulism in cattle is not a notifiable disease. However, from an industry perspective it is of benefit that suspect cases of botulism are reported to my Department in order that the incidence and extent of outbreaks may be monitored. DAFM veterinary laboratories are available to assist in diagnosis and to rule out other...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Basic Payment Scheme Eligibility (19 Jun 2018)

Michael Creed: Under the Terms and Conditions of the Basic Payment Scheme, an applicant, as well as meeting the scheme criteria, must comply with EU regulatory requirements relating to Cross Compliance. A report detailing findings of an inspection carried out by Donegal County Council on 14thOctober 2016 was referred to my Department's Cross Compliance Unit for attention. This report detailed...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Felling Licences Applications (19 Jun 2018)

Michael Creed: A felling licence application for the above named was received by my Department on 3rdApril. It was referred to the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) and the local authority, which is standard procedure. A reply has been received from the NPWS and will be reviewed by the Department's Forestry Inspector. The Inspector also requested that the application be referred to the local...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: GLAS Payments (19 Jun 2018)

Michael Creed: The person named was approved into GLAS 1 with a contract commencement date of 1 October 2015. All 2015, 2016 and the 2017 Advance GLAS payments have been paid to the participant. The 2017 GLAS balance payment has now cleared all validations and it is expected that the payment will issue shortly.