Written answers

Wednesday, 19 October 2022

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

EU Funding

Photo of Matt CarthyMatt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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286. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 226 of 12 October 2022, the total amount of co-financing provided by the State in relation to funding from the European Multiannual Financial Framework through Budget 2023; the total amount of co-financing provided through the EUMFF and the total spend in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52136/22]

Photo of Charlie McConalogueCharlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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The 2023 Estimates provide a gross Vote of €2.14 billion for my department. This is the highest ever level of funding for my department and represents an increase of €283 million on the 2022 provision, or a 13% increase overall, to support farmers, fishers, and rural and coastal communities. The Budget delivers large-scale funding to drive the sector’s environmental ambition, helping improve both on-farm sustainability as well as farmer incomes.

The definitive allocations will be set out in the 2023 Revised Estimates Volume (REV) which will be published later this year and I can provide the information requested by the Deputy at that time.

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