Written answers

Wednesday, 13 January 2016

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme Data

Photo of Éamon Ó CuívÉamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

375. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of farmers who remain to be paid under the areas of natural constraint scheme for 2015 by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1018/16]

Photo of Simon CoveneySimon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

The number of eligible applicants in each county and the number of eligible applicants paid to date is set out below. Work is ongoing as a matter of priority in order to clear outstanding cases, in particular in relation to those cases, which may only have met the eligibility requirements at the end of 2015.

County Applied Paid
Carlow 763 691
Cavan 4,890 4,485
Clare 6,135 5,616
Cork 7,102 6,381
Donegal 8,649 7,553
Dublin 151 118
Galway 12,027 10,905
Kerry 7,773 6,879
Kildare 529 467
Kilkenny 1,785 1,587
Laois 1,733 1,549
Leitrim 3,533 3,155
Limerick 2,973 2,675
Longford 2,403 2,178
Louth 804 689
Mayo 11,623 10,384
Meath 1,358 1,215
Monaghan 4,135 3,771
Offaly 2,436 2,193
Roscommon 5,780 5,190
Sligo 4,064 3,645
Tipperary 4,561 4,069
Waterford 1,447 1,282
Westmeath 2,698 2,429
Wexford 1,509 1,273
Wicklow 1,844 1,598
Total 102,705 91,977

Comments

No comments

Log in or join to post a public comment.