Michael Moynihan (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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490. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the rules relating to TAMS grants will be changed to provide grant aid for meal bins for all livestock farmers; his views on whether the rules, which only provide grant aid for parlour feeding systems, are unfair to beef and sheep farmers (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53367/18]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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The expenditure on TAMS II to date is €98.7m. Applications continue to be received and processed under the Scheme with over 2,000 applications submitted under the latest tranche that closed on 7 December last. It is expected that the budget of €395m for the period of the RDP will be fully spent.

There are numerous requests for new investments and all must be considered within the confines of the available budget.