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Tuesday, 8 November 2022

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Departmental Funding

Photo of Holly CairnsHolly Cairns (Cork South West, Social Democrats)
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1290. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his Department will provide start-up funding to a producer organisation once it is approved to enable it to perform its functions. [55150/22]

Photo of Charlie McConalogueCharlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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Support was provided under the current Rural Development Programme for prospective beef Producer Organsiations  to engage a facilitator to help with recruitment and start-up activities.  In recognition of the key role that Producer Organisations can play in strengthening the position of primary producers in the supply chain, I have enhanced the support for early-stage producer organisations in the incoming CAP Strategic Plan.

The CAP Strategic Plan provides for administrative and advisory support of up to €33,000 to newly established producer organisations in the Beef, Sheep, Fruit and Vegetable, Tillage, Potatoes and Amenity Plants sectors in their first three years.

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