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- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (25 Apr 2024)
Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Senator Pippa Hackett): I confirm that 867 applications have been received with 33 in the first two tranches and it is increasing all the time. I do not have the figure for rejections. I can find that and get it to the Deputy. This is a generous scheme which supports women in farming. The eligibility criteria are...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (25 Apr 2024)
Claire Kerrane: It will be important to see how many, if any, of the 867 applications made have been refused for whatever reason to allow us to understand if there is an issue there. If a stakeholder group of women farmers set up to represent women farmers is raising an issue of access to this scheme, it would be worthy of consideration by the Minister of State. Perhaps when this fourth tranche closes, she...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (25 Apr 2024)
Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Senator Pippa Hackett): We will engage with the stakeholders group on its concerns, as we would have done up to now. I imagine that the small number of women farmers who do not meet the criteria under this TAM scheme may apply for any of the other TAM schemes. There is grant aid of between 40% and 60% there,...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (25 Apr 2024)
Agriculture Schemes
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (25 Apr 2024)
Claire Kerrane: 63. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an update on the women farmers' capital investment scheme under TAMS III; if there has been, or will be, a review of eligibility criteria for the scheme, given concerns raised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18242/24]
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (25 Apr 2024)
Claire Kerrane: My question is on the capital investment scheme for women farmers under TAMS. Will the Minister of State give an update on the number of applications approved to date. Given the issues that have been raised about locking out women farmers from accessing the scheme in the first place, will she review the eligibility criteria?
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (25 Apr 2024)
Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Senator Pippa Hackett): The women farmers capital investment scheme is one of ten measures in the targeted agriculture modernisation scheme, TAMS 3, which provides grants to farmers to build and-or improve a specified range of farm buildings and equipment on their holdings. The women farmers scheme opened for...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Agriculture Schemes (25 Apr 2024)
Claire Kerrane: Will the Minister of State confirm the figures, namely that 867 applications were received and that 333 of those were approved? Can she advise if any have been refused? She will be well aware that the women in agriculture stakeholder group has raised concerns about the eligibility criteria. Last summer, when it was introduced, it flagged its fear that it would lock some women out of...