Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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253. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of farmers enrolled in the agri-environment options scheme, AEOS, whose contracts will end in 2018, by county, in tabular form; if he will permit such farmers to join GLAS under a fourth round; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35686/16]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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The third tranche of GLAS was recently launched with a view to bringing participation in the Scheme to at least 50,000 farmers and to utilise the full budget allocated to the Scheme. It is now open to current AEOS participants to apply now to join GLAS under tranche 3 and avail of a 5 year contract under that scheme.  The table below gives the number of current AEOS 3 participants per county that have contracts which are due to expire on 31 December 2018.