Brendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael)
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642. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will include equestrian enterprises in the next round of TAMS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59777/21]

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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There are a wide variety of items available under the suite of seven measures under the Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme (TAMS). To date, total expenditure under the seven measures of the TAMS, including transitional expenditure, has reached in excess of €323m with commitments of an additional €145m made to scheme participants who have yet to draw down those grants.

Some 45,555 applications have been approved under the scheme.

All outstanding approvals issued represent potential outstanding liabilities for the Department and we must have a budget in place to pay these claims. As a result, it is not possible to consider adding additional items such as investment items for equestrian enterprises to the comprehensive list of investment items already available under TAMS.

No final decision has been made in relation to the interventions to be included in the CAP Strategic Plan (CSP) (2023-2027). To allow for the submission of the draft CSP by 1st January 2022, the Department are currently inviting members of the public and stakeholders to make written submissions or observations in respect of the draft CAP Strategic Plan 2023-2027 and associated Environmental Report and Natura Impact Statement, further details of which can also be found on my Department's website.