Written answers

Tuesday, 24 November 2009

Department of Agriculture and Food

Grant Payments

9:00 pm

Photo of Ulick BurkeUlick Burke (Galway East, Fine Gael)
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Question 501: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the amount of grant aid paid out for the years 2007, 2008 and to date in 2009 in County Galway under the farm waste scheme; the amount due but not to be paid in 2009, 2010 and 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43101/09]

Photo of Brendan SmithBrendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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Expenditure under the Farm Waste Management Scheme in County Galway since 2007 is set out in the following table:

YearAmount (€m)
20078.771
200833.159
2009 (to date)11.978
Total53.908

Payments under the Scheme in 2009 (excluding payments under the Scheme which preceded the Nitrates version of the Scheme introduced in March 2006) have been made on an instalment basis with 40 per cent being paid this year as claims are approved. A further 40 per cent will be paid in early January 2010 and the remaining 20 per cent in January 2011. I have also announced that a special ex-gratia payment not exceeding 3.5 per cent of the value of the deferred amount will be made to farmers whose Farm Waste Management grants have been partially deferred. This payment will be made in January 2011 along with the final instalment.

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