Michael Moynihan (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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Question 551: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of EU farm payments, excluding grants, per farmer that have been cut since 2008 on a county basis. [25163/12]

Michael Moynihan (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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Question 552: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide an estimate of the amount of EU farm payments, excluding grants, per farmer that will fall by for 2012 on a county basis. [25164/12]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 551 and 552 together.

EU farm payments include Agri-Environment Options Scheme, Agri-Environment Options Scheme 2, Area Based Compensatory Allowance Scheme, Bovine Dioxin Cull, Agri-Environment Programme, Arable Aid, Area Aid - General Scheme – Cereals, Area Aid related payments – Cereals, Area Aid – Simplified Scheme – Cereals, Agri-monetary aid 1st tranche - Cereals, Accompanying measures – Environment, Aid to Small Producers - Cereals, BSE compensation, Burren Life Scheme, Dairy Compensation Scheme, Dairy Efficiency Scheme, Dairy Premium, Deseasonalisation Slaughter Premium, Ewe & Goat Premium, Ewe Premium, Extensification Premium, Grassland Sheep Scheme, Multi Annual Sanction Admin Fines SFP, Obligatory slaughter programme, Premium for Suckler Cow, Premium for Suckler Cow Mixed Herds, Special Beef Premium, Supplementary Ewe Premium, Set Aside, Single Farm Payment, Single Farm Payment/ Energy Crop, Single Farm Payment/ Protein Crop Premium, Slaughter Premium, Sugar Contractors, Sugar Restructuring Aid and Upland Sheep Scheme.

The following table sets out the average amount of these EU aided farm payments paid per farmer in 2008 compared to the payments made in 2011 on a county basis:

Once off payments under certain EU funded schemes such as the Sugar Restructuring Scheme in 2008 and the introduction of new Schemes since 2008 such the Burren Life Scheme and the Upland Sheep Scheme, as well as varying time periods taken to process payments under Schemes such as the Single Farm Scheme make comparison between the two periods very difficult. The closing date for 2012 Single Farm Payment and Disadvantaged Area Schemes was 15th May 2012. It is not possible to estimate the amount payable under these Schemes at this point in time.