Patrick O'Donovan (Limerick, Fine Gael)
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723. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if he will provide details in tabular form by location of the number of hen harrier birds in each of the SPA's Slieve Aughty, Slieve Beagh, Slieve Bloom, Boggeragh, Sleive Felim and Mullagareik that his Department are aware of; the number of individual land-holdings and landowners within the boundaries of these areas; the number of landowners in receipt of compensation from his Department within these areas; the number of landowners who have unsuccessfully applied to be included in a compensation arrangement from the his Department from these areas; the total amount of compensation paid to landowners in each of these areas since designation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36937/13]

Jimmy Deenihan (Kerry North-West Limerick, Fine Gael)
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The information sought by the Deputy is available from the Republic of Ireland Hen Harrier Survey 2010 and is set out in the Table below (the survey report is available at http://www.npws.ie/publications/irishwildlifemanuals/IWM59.pdf ):

The figures on the number of landowners identified within these SPAs are being compiled and will be forwarded to the Deputy as soon as possible.

The number of participants who received payments under my Department’s Farm Plan Scheme for the Hen Harrier is set out in the table.

A further 27 people wrote to my Department expressing an interest in joining the Hen Harrier Farm Plan Scheme after it closed in April 2010.

By mid-September 2013, my Department had paid €11,031,200 to participants in the Hen Harrier Farm Plan Scheme for work completed as part of their contracts.