Bobby Aylward (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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249. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when decisions are expected to be issued on applications lodged under tranche 3 of TAMS 2; if his attention has been drawn to the fact that dairy farmers will be subjected to a very short timeline in which to complete necessary works to milking parlours and associated machinery in advance of calving if decisions are not returned as soon as possible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31244/16]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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There were 284 applications submitted for the Dairy Equipment Scheme under Tranche 3 of TAMS II. In all across the six schemes of TAMS II 1, 999 applications were received by the closing date of the Tranche on 24 June 2016.

All applications received in a given tranche have to be checked to ensure that all administrative issues are in order. Once this process is complete a ranking and selection is carried out and all eligible applications within the available tranche budget are sent to the local office for final technical appraisal before approvals issue. It should be noted that the submission of an application to the TAMS II scheme does not mean automatic approval. This process is underway for the Dairy Equipment Scheme applications received in Tranche 3.