Written answers
Tuesday, 27 May 2014
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Beef Data Programme
Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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628. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to detail the estimated number of farmers in each county with suckler cows; the number of applications received in 2014, broken down by county, for the beef genomics scheme 2014 and the beef data programme scheme 2014 respectively; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23133/14]
Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The information requested is set out in the tabular statement.
County | Number of suckler cow herds | Number of applications for both the Beef Genomics Scheme and Beef Data Programme | No of applications for Beef Data Programme only |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carlow | 881 | 474 | 20 |
| Cavan | 3,336 | 1,791 | 59 |
| Clare | 4,621 | 2,763 | 112 |
| Cork | 5,854 | 2,350 | 93 |
| Donegal | 4,069 | 2,008 | 86 |
| Dublin | 218 | 81 | 4 |
| Galway | 8,176 | 4,173 | 160 |
| Kerry | 3,888 | 1,824 | 95 |
| Kildare | 989 | 451 | 23 |
| Kilkenny | 1,849 | 903 | 40 |
| Laois | 1,638 | 877 | 37 |
| Leitrim | 2,614 | 1,578 | 76 |
| Limerick | 2,770 | 1,065 | 74 |
| Longford | 1,680 | 984 | 51 |
| Louth | 663 | 322 | 19 |
| Mayo | 7,145 | 3,868 | 238 |
| Meath | 1,932 | 863 | 36 |
| Monaghan | 2,446 | 1,237 | 61 |
| Offaly | 1,735 | 843 | 43 |
| Roscommon | 3,878 | 2,160 | 128 |
| Sligo | 2,697 | 1,471 | 105 |
| Tipperary | 3,545 | 1,490 | 75 |
| Waterford | 1,242 | 487 | 37 |
| Westmeath | 1,866 | 979 | 45 |
| Wexford | 1,821 | 881 | 52 |
| Wicklow | 1,124 | 569 | 29 |
| - | 72,677 | 36,492 | 1,798 |
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