Written answers

Thursday, 27 January 2011

Department of Agriculture and Food

Departmental Schemes

2:00 pm

Photo of Andrew DoyleAndrew Doyle (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Question 134: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the number of applicants to the agri-environment options scheme that have been approved to date; if it is envisaged that under the 2011 budgetary parameters this scheme will be expanded beyond this number and of so, to what extent; if the four year plan for his Department envisages an expansion of this scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4307/11]

Photo of Brendan SmithBrendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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Some 9,236 applications were received for the Agri-Environment Options Scheme in 2010 of which 8,404 have been accepted into the scheme. The processing of the remaining applications is at an advanced stage and applicants will be notified of the outcome shortly.

I have already announced my intention to reopen the scheme in 2011 to allow entry of up to 10,000 new applicants and a maximum payment of €5,000 per applicant.

For 2012 and following years decisions on the scheme will be made in the context of the of the annual Estimates process and the financial constraints of the National Recovery Plan.

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