Tommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent)
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1593. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the projects his Department is prioritising in budget 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26143/16]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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The discussions on the 2017 Estimate are under way in the Department and all budget lines in the Vote, both capital and current are being examined as part of that process. My intention is to ensure that all resources available to my Department will be managed to advance Government priorities and provide the optimum benefit to economic activity in the agricultural, food, fisheries and forestry sectors, including farm incomes, and to realising the potential which clearly exists for the sectors to continue to contribute to the national economic recovery.