Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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306. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of applications his Department has received, in tabular form by county, from those wishing to participate in the green low-carbon agri-environment scheme; the number of applicants classified as being hill farmers and commonage farmers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25835/15]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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At the outset, I would like to welcome the fact that almost 27,000 applications were submitted in the first tranche of GLAS applications, which is very much in line with the projections I made when launching the scheme. All GLAS applications will now be assessed and approved in line with the priority environmental assets and pre-determined selection criteria. As applications are classified by actions selected and not by type of enterprise there is no classification by hill farmer but rather by commonage.

A full breakdown of all applications received, and identifying those with commonages, is supplied below.