Seán Ó Fearghaíl (Kildare South, Fianna Fail)
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Question 226: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the statistics on a county basis of the number of applications approved for participation in the farm waste management scheme; the level of funding dispersed to date under this scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45678/08]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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42,970 approvals to commence work have issued, to date, to farmers under the revised Farm Waste Management Scheme introduced by my Department in March 2006. A county-by-county breakdown of these approvals is not available at present.

To date in 2008, €346.56 million has been paid out to farmers under the Scheme. This compares to €113.88 million in 2007 and €21.32 million in 2006.