Written answers

Tuesday, 24 November 2015

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

TAMS Payments

Photo of Michael Healy-RaeMichael Healy-Rae (Kerry South, Independent)
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262. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of an application under the equipment grant scheme by a person (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41585/15]

Photo of Simon CoveneySimon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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The new TAMS measure will make €395m available to Irish farmers for investing in on-farm infrastructure, facilities and equipment. All TAMS schemes have been opened and the applications received under the first tranches of both the Young Farmer Capital Investment Scheme and the Dairy Equipment Scheme are now being processed.

Interest in TAMS to date has exceeded expectations and clearly many Irish farmers are looking once again at the benefits of investing in their enterprises and expanding production. Under the Young Farmer Capital Investment Scheme a total of 520 applications have been received with over 200 of these applying for dairy investments while over a thousand applications have been submitted for the Dairy Equipment Scheme.

All applications received are being examined and approvals will commence when all of the required checks have been undertaken. This is a complex process and as all applications for TAMS 2 must be made under a tranche-based approach, we are required to evaluate, rank and assess all applications received together. Applications cannot be approved individually or on a rolling basis as they are submitted.

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