Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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166. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers with commonage that participated in REP 4 scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25092/14]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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There have been a number of different agri-environment schemes running since June 1994, commencing with REPS 1. REPS 4 is the latest and the last in the REPS series, having been succeeded by AEOS, the Agri-Environment Options Scheme, which opened in 2010. REPS 4 is a measure under the current 2007-13 Rural Development Programme and provided inter aliafor the application of environmental actions to Commonage lands upon which the applicant held grazing entitlements, and for which a Commonage Framework Plan was prepared. Over 30,000 farmers participated in the REPS 4 scheme and of these a total of 3,610 had commonage lands.