Dáil debates
Thursday, 21 February 2008
Installation Aid Scheme.
4:00 pm
John Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
The number of payees under the installation aid scheme in the past five years on a county-by-county basis is set out in the following table:
| Recipients of Installation Aid | |||||
| County | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 |
| Cavan | 29 | 12 | 10 | 17 | 22 |
| Donegal | 21 | 21 | 11 | 7 | 7 |
| Leitrim | 12 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 5 |
| Louth | 12 | 7 | 10 | 8 | 4 |
| Monaghan | 20 | 24 | 13 | 19 | 9 |
| Sligo | 21 | 11 | 8 | 13 | 5 |
| Laois | 29 | 24 | 12 | 10 | 21 |
| Longford | 12 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 4 |
| Offaly | 20 | 17 | 12 | 24 | 19 |
| Westmeath | 17 | 16 | 9 | 9 | 11 |
| Galway | 52 | 58 | 32 | 42 | 52 |
| Mayo | 33 | 33 | 30 | 22 | 26 |
| Roscommon | 27 | 25 | 20 | 20 | 11 |
| Dublin | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Kildare | 23 | 17 | 10 | 10 | 11 |
| Meath | 37 | 25 | 11 | 18 | 16 |
| Wicklow | 12 | 24 | 15 | 8 | 11 |
| Clare | 48 | 36 | 23 | 25 | 33 |
| Limerick | 55 | 53 | 36 | 30 | 29 |
| Tipperary | 105 | 75 | 63 | 60 | 42 |
| Carlow | 13 | 15 | 15 | 10 | 6 |
| Kilkenny | 56 | 43 | 25 | 40 | 21 |
| Waterford | 34 | 27 | 12 | 18 | 21 |
| Wexford | 44 | 22 | 36 | 32 | 37 |
| County Cork | 178 | 135 | 75 | 118 | 132 |
| Kerry | 71 | 72 | 55 | 44 | 42 |
| Total | 987 | 808 | 557 | 615 | 597 |
The number of applications rejected during the same period is 231. I am satisfied that there is sufficient flexibility in the current scheme, the young farmers installation scheme, to deal with unusual and unforeseeable circumstances which may arise during the course of the application process. In particular, the scheme provides for the acceptance of force majeure as provided for in the relevant EU regulations governing the scheme. The Deputy will be aware that the grant rate under the current scheme, which was introduced in June 2007, is 57% higher than that which was available under the preceding scheme.
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