Written answers

Wednesday, 13 January 2021

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme

Photo of Matt CarthyMatt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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1167. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to increase the investment ceilings for the TAMS pig and poultry scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1539/21]

Photo of Charlie McConalogueCharlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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The Pig and Poultry Investment Scheme (PPIS) is one of the suite of seven measures available under TAMS II. The full indicative allocation for all TAMS II measures over the course of the Rural Development Programme is €395 million. To date, €264 million has been paid across all the available schemes. A further €130m has been committed to scheme participants which they have yet to draw down. Payments under the PPIS now exceed €1.53m.

The formal European Commission approval to an amendment to the Rural Development Programme to increase the investment ceiling for the PPIS from the current investment ceiling of €80,000 to €200,000 was requested and approved. The estimated cost of implementing this increase is €12m.

A final decision on if and when to proceed with the implementation of this amendment has not yet been made. The issue will need to be further considered in light of the available budget as the CAP transitional regulations that will provide the legal basis for the transitional period post-2020 are now finalised.

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