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Tuesday, 19 November 2019

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Common Agricultural Policy Subsidies

Photo of Paul MurphyPaul Murphy (Dublin South West, Solidarity)
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480. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the distribution of CAP subsidies across small, medium and large farmers. [47233/19]

Photo of Michael CreedMichael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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The table below shows the distribution of CAP pillar 1 payments (basic payment scheme and greening) made for the year 2018 to date to farmers in Ireland, sorted by area farmed. Farmers may also benefit from schemes under CAP pillar 2, many of which are not area-related. More details of payments to farmers are available in the CAP beneficiaries database which can be found on the DAFM website at

Area (ha)
No. of Farmers
Total
Up to 20
49,214
€159,093,015
21-40
39,273
€296,415,952
41-60
18,233
€243,602,178
61-80
8,134
€160,635,763
>81
8,719
€314,166,104
Total
123,573
€1,173,913,012

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