Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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182. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers who applied for the disadvantaged areas scheme and single farm payment scheme, broken down by county in 2013; the number that were paid their disadvantaged area payment to date; the number that had penalties applied; the number that paid their first and second single farm payment to date; the number that had penalties applied; the amount paid under each scheme in each county to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53563/13]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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A total of 120,551 have received the first payment of their 2013 SPS and 117,716 have received the second instalment. To date, 9,187 farmers have had a penalty applied.

The figures for those who applied and those paid in each county are set out in the following table.

Payments under the 2013 Disadvantaged Areas Scheme commenced, on schedule, on 25 September and, to date, payments worth €186.5 million have issued nationally, to some 88,263 applicants, with payments continuing to issue on a twice weekly basis, with individual cases being paid as they are confirmed eligible. To date 10,588 applicants have had a penalty applied.

Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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183. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount of money that would be available to transfer to lower paid farmers under Common Agricultural Policy 2014-2020 if the single farm payment was capped at €800-ha for the first 10ha and €400-ha for the balance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53564/13]

Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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184. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the level of ceiling on the single farm payment that would be required to save the €108 million to be transferred to farmers with low payments under Pillar 1 of the Common Agricultural Policy 2014-2020 allowing that a cap of €800-ha would apply on the first 10ha; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53565/13]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 183 and 184 together.

The statistics requested by the Deputy are contained in the following tables. Each scenario is based on the 2012 Payments Model and relates to the application of mandatory measures and minimum convergence thresholds under the Direct Payment Regulation. This model of Internal Convergence results in the transfer of €103.783m to farmers with an Initial Unit Value below the national average. The application of any one or more optional schemes and the consequent reduction in the ceiling available to the Basic Payment Scheme would reduce the BPS payments received by these farmers and may lead to a reduction in the number of farmers affected and the amount of money saved.

Application of a cap of €800 per hectare (BPS + Greening) on the first 10 hectares