Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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129. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the amount provided in the Revised Estimates for 2015 for expenditure on the GLAS; his views that this expenditure will take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3050/15]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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I expect 25,000 – 30,000 farmers to be approved into the GLAS scheme in 2015 and the estimated expenditure for the year is €20 million. Given the level of interest in the scheme I believe this estimate is realistic and I expect payments to commence in the last quarter of the year.