Brendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael)
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434. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if advice will be provided to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18963/22]

Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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There are a wide variety of items available under the suite of seven measures under TAMS II. Grant aid is currently available for horse stocks under the Animal Welfare and Nutrient Storage Scheme and the Young Farmer Capital Investment Scheme.

To date, total expenditure under the seven measures of the TAMS, including transitional expenditure, has reached in excess of €349m with commitments of an additional €126m made to scheme participants who have yet to draw down those grants.

Some 49,053 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 specific investment items for equine farming to the comprehensive list of investment items already available under TAMS at this time.

Specific investments have not yet been finalised in relation to the interventions to be included in the CAP Strategic Plan (CSP)(2023-2027), and representations from the equine sector will be given due consideration. The Capital Investment Scheme (CIS), as is the case with all proposals under the CAP Strategic Plan (CSP), is subject to the formal approval of the European Commission.