Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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97. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of commonages in the municipal district of Connemara in County Galway; the name of each commonage; the details of the commonages that have been assigned to a planner to draw up commonage plans under the green low-carbon agri-environmental scheme, GLAS; the total area of each commonage and the number of shareholders in each commonage; the number of active shareholders in the commonage, based on the most recent data available to his Department through application for area aid; the number of farmers in each commonage who have applied to join GLAS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35080/15]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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My Department has recently compiled a database of Commonages throughout the country, which is publicly available on the Department’s website and is regularly updated.  Most of the information requested by the Deputy can be freely obtained from this database, which can be accessed through the following link:

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In this database, all commonages are listed in county order, indicating the townland and their unique identifier number. The total area of each commonage, along with the active shareholders based on the most recent data available to the Department, is also shown. The database also shows the Commonage Advisors who have already been appointed and this information is updated regularly, as further appointments are made. Only commonages in excess of 10 hectares require the appointment of a single advisor.

The individual shareholders who have applied for GLAS are not identified on that database for Data Protection reasons, but this information is provided to the appointed Commonage Advisor by my Department. However, a full breakdown of all applications received , and identifying those with commonages, is supplied as follows.