Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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924. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the update on payments made to date under the 2013 REP scheme 4 and AEOS 1, 2 and 3; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14186/14]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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A total of 26,821 applicants have now received a total of €152.33m under their REPS4 contracts in respect of their 2013 payment. Of this amount 26,478 have received their full 100% payment. The remaining 343 participants will receive the balance of their payments this week. Files in respect of a further 2,389 participants remain under examination and officials within my Department are working through these to resolve any outstanding issues.

6,914 AEOS 1 participants have received €26.68m and 5,239 AEOS 2 participants have received €16.73m in respect of their 2013 payment. Of this amount 6,387 AEOS 1 and 4,874 AEOS 2 participants have received their full 100% payment. The remaining 527 AEOS 1 participants and 392 AEOS 2 participants will receive the balance of their payments shortly.

Files in respect of a further 767 AEOS 1 participants and 766 AEOS 2 participants remain under examination and officials within my Department are working through these to resolve any outstanding issues.

There are 5,963 active participants in the AEOS III Scheme. The checking process for this Scheme is well under way and I expect that payments for this Scheme will commence in shortly.