Written answers
Tuesday, 22 March 2005
Department of Agriculture and Food
Rural Environment Protection Scheme
8:00 pm
Denis Naughten (Longford-Roscommon, Fine Gael)
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Question 394: To ask the Minister for Agriculture and Food if she will provide this Deputy with details of the amount of moneys paid out to each county; the number of participants in each county to all REP schemes to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8973/05]
Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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The following table sets out the number of farmers in each county who undertook contracts in each of the three rural environment protection schemes to date. These figures include a certain number who for various reasons did not complete their contracts. It also sets out in the last column the total spending on REPS to date.
County | REPS 1 | REPS 2 | REPS 3 | Total paid (€ million) |
Carlow | 416 | 348 | 254 | 15.73 |
Cavan | 1,827 | 1,374 | 615 | 50.34 |
Clare | 2,617 | 1,738 | 731 | 90.09 |
Cork | 3,275 | 2,762 | 1,518 | 120.26 |
Donegal | 3,100 | 3,210 | 707 | 119.34 |
Dublin | 142 | 84 | 33 | 3.74 |
Galway | 5,814 | 4,907 | 1,342 | 184.36 |
Kerry | 2,370 | 2,395 | 765 | 102.66 |
Kildare | 820 | 429 | 180 | 23.22 |
Kilkenny | 564 | 434 | 324 | 37.78 |
Laois | 1,110 | 834 | 558 | 38.08 |
Leitrim | 2,822 | 2,275 | 914 | 72.68 |
Limerick | 1,567 | 1,061 | 664 | 50.53 |
Longford | 1,265 | 964 | 319 | 38.70 |
Louth | 777 | 604 | 327 | 10.89 |
Mayo | 5,451 | 4,846 | 1,621 | 180.87 |
Meath | 1,171 | 749 | 396 | 33.35 |
Monaghan | 711 | 686 | 419 | 30.80 |
Offaly | 1,399 | 940 | 436 | 47.19 |
Roscommon | 1,464 | 1,087 | 376 | 54.62 |
Sligo | 1,549 | 1,218 | 471 | 47.16 |
Tipperary | 2,410 | 1,665 | 1,159 | 85.42 |
Waterford | 1,231 | 1,069 | 886 | 30.64 |
Westmeath | 1,565 | 1,017 | 579 | 48.64 |
Wexford | 1,142 | 779 | 436 | 39.37 |
Wicklow | 516 | 472 | 297 | 19.67 |
Total | 47,095 | 37,947 | 16,327 | 1,576.13 |
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