Written answers
Friday, 16 December 2016
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Rural Development Programme Funding
Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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446. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to set out in tabular form the breakdown of total expenditure incurred to date in 2016 and the annual amount of funds originally allocated to the schemes (details supplied) under the Rural Development Programme 2014-20; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40877/16]
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 the Horticulture Industry and Development of the Organic Sector schemes are not in RDP 2014-2020 while no allocation was made for the Knowledge Transfer Scheme in 2016.
A substantial amount of further expenditure will take place in the coming weeks particularly in GLAS, BDGP, AEOS and Organics.
Title of Scheme | 2016 allocation €000 | 2016 Outturn – 14 December €000 |
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Areas of Natural Constraint Scheme | 202,000 | 200,117 |
Beef Data and Genomics Programme | 52,000 | 36,675 |
AEOS | 40,850 | 24,539 |
GLAS | 139,500* | 5,893 |
Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme | 35,800 | 6,366 |
Early Retirement Scheme | 4,602* | 4,408 |
Organic Farming Schemes | 10,000 | 3,784 |
REPS (including Agricultural Catchment Programme) | 2,194 | 2,652 |
Locally Led Environmental Schemes (Burren) | 1,200 | 1,677 |
Technical assistance | 1,000 | 790 |
Collaborative Farming | 500 | 329 |
Speciality Foods Scheme | 989 | 10 |
Targeted Advisory Service for Animal Disease | 700 | 183 |
- | - | - |
Totals | 491,335 | 287,423 |
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