Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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501. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 1561 of 16 September 2016, the reason he did not provide, as requested, the total payments made to date under the GLAS scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28186/16]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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A part-year payment in respect of the final three months of 2015 for certain GLAS actions is due to some 22,000 GLAS tranche 1 applicants.  To date, a total of €16,453,507 has issued in respect of payments for the 2015 scheme year. 

A first instalment of this 2015 payment, representing up to 85% of the total 2015 payment due, issued to 18,000 applicants in December 2015 to the value of €11,528,700.  A further 3,000 applicants received their first instalment of the 2015 scheme year payment in March 2016 which totalled €1,579,300. 

The 2015 balancing payments issued to 18,500 applicants in early August 2016, to the value of €3,345,507.  My Department is continuing to process outstanding 2015 payments subject to the completion of all the required regulatory checks.