Written answers
Tuesday, 8 April 2008
Department of Agriculture and Food
Farm Improvement Scheme
9:00 pm
Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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Question 74: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food further to Parliamentary Question No. 331 of 13 November 2007, the number of applications and the amount applied for in grants under the farm improvement grants scheme received by each of the offices and sub offices of her Department by 22 October 2007; if applications received by the end of October 2007 will be included for consideration; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13085/08]
Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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12,675 applications were received by my Department under the Farm Improvement Scheme prior to its suspension on 31 October 2007. A county-by-county breakdown of these applications is as follows:—
County | Number of Applications |
Carlow | 176 |
Cavan | 675 |
Clare | 510 |
Cork | 1,863 |
Donegal | 931 |
Dublin | 29 |
Galway | 850 |
Kerry | 875 |
Kildare | 133 |
Kilkenny | 519 |
Laois | 336 |
Leitrim | 375 |
Limerick | 368 |
Longford | 218 |
Louth | 209 |
Mayo | 740 |
Meath | 272 |
Monaghan | 362 |
Offaly | 282 |
Roscommon | 484 |
Sligo | 255 |
Tipperary | 895 |
Waterford | 487 |
Westmeath | 274 |
Wexford | 295 |
Wicklow | 262 |
Total | 12,675 |
These applications are currently being processed within my Department up to the level of funding made available for the Scheme in the 2006 Partnership agreement, Towards 2016. The detailed information is assessed at the approval rather than the application stage under this Scheme.
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