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Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Martin Heydon: In some instances, yes.

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Martin Heydon: We can place-----

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Martin Heydon: That is fine. We will place as much emphasis on where the problem areas are. It does not, however, mean turning our backs on an area in which disease is seeding out that we cannot ignore. There are three causes of the spread of bovine TB. The Deputy is right; one of them is wildlife. Another is cattle transmission. The last is the residual transmission left behind in the cohort that has...

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Martin Heydon: I thank Deputy Cooney for his comments and the point he made regarding ACRES. I know, from having dealt with him with regard to individual cases in Clare, that this has been a very difficult issue for many of his constituents. I was determined to do two things. One was to address the 14,500 farmers who were due money when I came into this role as quickly as possible. The other was to make...

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Martin Heydon: I am working closely with the Minister of State, Deputy Healy-Rae, on the area of forestry. Really good progress has been made to support those farmers who are significantly impacted by Storm Éowyn. Historic proportions of forestry were flattened around the country in windblown elements. What I and the Minister of State have done is to look to support those 26,000 ha that have been...

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Martin Heydon: There absolutely is more we can do. We have to change our approach because the current approach is not working and if we continue to go as we are going, the cost on farmers and the cost out of my budget on compensation will be off the charts. If I have to spend more, I would prefer to spend it once-off on a long-term solution that addresses this. That is what the whole approach has been....

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Martin Heydon: The estimated figure of money?

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Martin Heydon: Yes, that will include the compensation money, but the truth is that that original figure of €97 million from 2024 included a Supplementary Estimate. There was not enough budgeted for at that time. The spread of the disease has been increasing. It was at 23% between 2023 and 2024 and is 44% now, as Deputy Cooney said. What is budgeted for this year is €73.5 million. That...

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Martin Heydon: Exactly.

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Martin Heydon: That must be on the smaller page, is it?

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Martin Heydon: I will get the Deputy a reason and a breakdown for that now. As regards the overall heading, there was a change in that. It is up €5 million overall because we have the control of dogs in now. I do not have to hand right now-----

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Martin Heydon: Yes, under A3.

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Martin Heydon: B4 is ANCs, is it not?

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Martin Heydon: I can answer that for the Deputy now. Sorry, I did not realise she was talking about B14 as well. B3, the agri-environment scheme, covers TAMS and organics and the environmental elements of them. That was reduced. As regards the European recovery instrument, EURI, this is the last year we are able to claim the allocation, in 2025. For TAMS that was down €13.3 million and for...

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Martin Heydon: I certainly hope not-----

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Martin Heydon: -----but I have to manage out my budget. There is a range of different areas here where I have had to manage my budget and where some things are up and some things are down. On this one-----

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Martin Heydon: The Deputy is right: last year's budget did not allocate enough money-----

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Martin Heydon: I was answering questions here earlier about the delays and the challenges farmers had faced in terms of the historical initial issues for some of the applicants in 2023 and 2024. As I said, when I came into this job on 23 January, 14,500 farmers who were due money had not been paid because there was-----

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Martin Heydon: There were processing problems there. I said to the Deputy now we are down to 2,961 farmers left to be unpaid-----

Select Committee on Agriculture and Food: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Further Revised) (18 Jun 2025)

Martin Heydon: -----and we will have those resolved. Obviously, I have to manage out the budget for the rest of the year.