Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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376. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers who have indicated actions under the green low-carbon agri-environmental scheme, by county, under Tier 1,Tier 2, and Tier 3; the number of these that have commonage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18679/15]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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A total of 28,715 applications have been created on the GLAS on-line system. A total of 20,625 applications have actions recorded of which 3,380 are commonage applications with actions. The breakdown of applications with actions is set out in tabular form below:

The allocation between Tiers 1, 2 and 3 cannot be taken as definitive at this stage because there is the possibility that applicants may yet choose actions which may promote them to a higher tier.