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- Grant Payments. (29 Apr 2010)
Brendan Smith: Of course I do. I introduced the â¬7 million upland sheep scheme last year. That was the totality of the funding available from the unused funds to which I had access in 2009. I stated I would dedicate that funding to the sheep sector because of the difficulties it has gone through. More than â¬5 million of that â¬7 million has been paid out. Queries were made to certain people. It...
- Grant Payments. (29 Apr 2010)
Brendan Smith: We are discussing the upland sheep scheme now. More than â¬5 million has been paid down. We have introduced schemes that are altogether administratively simple, under which we do not have a necessary inspection process that costs money. I refer to the new â¬18 million scheme. Department officials were engaged in widespread consultation with each of the farming organisations. We sought...
- Grant Payments. (29 Apr 2010)
Michael Creed: The Minister's credibility with the sheep farming community is at an all-time low. Even the â¬7 million promised for upland farmers has not been paid in full to date, never mind the â¬27 million promised in May 2007, which was a figment of Fianna Fáil's imagination in the lead-up to the election. We are where we are in terms of the national economy and its finances because the stock...