Written answers
Wednesday, 18 December 2013
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Single Payment Scheme Expenditure
Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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207. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will estimate the total direct single payments likely to benefit Irish farmers from 2014 to 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54714/13]
Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The annual ceilings available to Ireland under the Direct Payment Regulation for the period 2015 to 2019 are set down in the Annex II of that Regulation as follows:
| Year | Ceilings available |
|---|---|
| 2015 | €1,215,003,000 |
| 2016 | €1,213,470,000 |
| 2017 | €1,211,899,000 |
| 2018 | €1,211,482,000 |
| 2019 | €1,211,066,000 |
The ceiling available to Ireland for the 2014 scheme year is set down in the Transitional Regulation dealing with the arrangements for that year and is €1,216,547,000.
The total amount available to Ireland under the Direct Payment Regulation for the period 2014 to 2019 is €6,062,920,000.
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