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- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael Creed: There have been nearly 900 claims and a total of 650 have been paid.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael Creed: Yes. Management of the Department's finances has changed. This affects the calculation of any underspend or overspend. There will be a time-limited approval rate in the future and differences between the number of approvals in respect of plant and machinery and that in respect of buildings, including for nutrient management.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael Creed: Our problem was that, up until recently, there was no timeline on their obligation. We have changed that now and hope that it will facilitate the process. It will also enable us to manage the Department funding. We put up a certain amount for 2017 and we cannot be certain that it is going to be drawn down. Certainly, if the works are done, the money is there to pay it and we will pay it...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael Creed: Yes, most of them. The ones in the most recent tranches have had a limitation on the timelines. I am subject to correction but my recollection is that for plant, if one is buying a low-emission slurry spreader or whatever, the revised arrangement is six months. It is one year for fixed assets, such as buildings. We have 860 claims in, in respect of which 650 payments have been made. Over...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael Creed: A total of 22,500 farmers have applied. That accounts for approximately 2 million ewes.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael Creed: Yes, something more than €20 million.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael Creed: Yes, that is our assessment of it at this stage.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael Creed: The timeline that we are operating to, as determined by the Commission, is that we must have this matter completed for basic payment applications for 2018. We are working against the set of criteria that the Commission has laid down. As the Deputy knows, it was done previously under socioeconomic criteria. We are now operating on what they call biophysical criteria to do with slope,...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael Creed: My primary objective is to hold the designation. The categorisation within the designation is a further matter, but my overwhelming objective is to hold the designation for the country in areas that are currently designated. We have not considered the sub-categories within that at this stage. I think the highest payment relates to the islands. It varies from that to a much lower payment....
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael Creed: I think it is a job for a later date. The immediate work is in terms of classification and, hopefully, retaining the area that we currently have.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael Creed: Under the revised arrangement, there is provision to retain that stepped approach for payment.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael Creed: My understanding is that it would be the three different tiers as they currently apply.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael Creed: That discretion was availed of in recent changes introduced, by means of which the island payments were significantly increased.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael Creed: As I said, that process is under way. They will obviously be included if they meet the biophysical criteria.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael Creed: No doubt the Deputy has a particular view on that.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael Creed: I appreciate the concerns over having adequate resources to meet the challenge of Brexit and all of the other challenges of being an island that exports 90% of what it produces. It is not true to say it is €1.6 million as Deputy D'Arcy said. After 24 June 2016 we put €1.6 million extra into Bord Bia for the remainder of 2016. On top of that figure we have put an additional...
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael Creed: I should have alluded to our multifaceted response to these issues in response to Deputy Cahill's questions. The Department is putting a great deal of effort into working with Bord Bia to seek new markets, for example in the live export area. The number of cattle now leaving the country as live exports is greater than ever before.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael Creed: I appreciate that. We have had more cattle before than we have now. The effort is going into the area where it should be going. While I take Deputy D'Arcy's point about Brexit in its broadest sense, it is really wide of the mark to say we have not prepared for or looked at all the scenarios.
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael Creed: Yes. If the Deputy is talking about WTO tariffs on beef at-----
- Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised) (21 Mar 2017) Michael Creed: Who would be at war with whom?