Written answers
Tuesday, 13 December 2016
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Rural Development Programme Funding
Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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554. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide in tabular form a breakdown of expenditure incurred to date in 2016 and the annual allocation of funds in the Revised Estimates for 2016 under the rural development fund 2014-2020 and if he will provide certain detail for schemes (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39857/16]
Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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The information requested by the Deputy is set out in the following table.
Of the schemes listed by the Deputy no allocation was made for the Knowledge Transfer Scheme in 2016.
A substantial amount of further expenditure will take place in the coming weeks.
| Title of Scheme | 2016 allocation€000 | 2016 Outturn – 13 December€000 |
|---|---|---|
| Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme | 202,000 | 199,536 |
| Beef Data and Genomics Programme | 52,000 | 29,689 |
| AEOS | 40,850 | 22,893 |
| GLAS | 139,500* | 5,406 |
| Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme | 35,800 | 9,110 |
| Early Retirement Scheme | 4,602* | 4,408 |
| Organic Farming Schemes | 10,000 | 2,529 |
| REPS (including Agricultural Catchment Programme) | 2,194 | 2,634 |
| Locally Led Environmental Schemes (Burren) | 1,200 | 1,178 |
| Technical assistance | 1,000 | 687 |
| Collaborative Farming | 500 | 229 |
| Speciality Foods Scheme | 989 | 10 |
| Targeted Advisory Service for Animal Disease | 700 | 183 |
| - | - | - |
| Totals | 491,335 | 278,492 |
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