Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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443. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the proposals, if any, he has to provide grant-aid for the pigmeat sector under TAMS11 in view of the very high costs in providing appropriate on-farm facilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27374/14]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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My Department published a consultation paper on the new Rural Development Programme in January 2014. In the case of TAMS II, the consultation paper set out a number of priorities for on-farm investment schemes under the new Programme. These included, in the pigmeat sector, the upgrading of facilities in the areas of renewable energy, water and medicines. I intend to include further details in relation to these grants in the Rural Development Programme itself when it is finalised in the near future.