Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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537. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the allocation under each of the measures of the Rural Development Programme 2014-2020; the expenditure under each measure for each of the years 2014 to 2016; the provision in the Estimates for the expenditure per measure in 2017, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5839/17]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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Ireland’s Rural Development Programme 2014 - 2020 is co-funded by the EU’s European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) and the national exchequer. EU support for the RDP via the EAFRD amounts to an aggregate sum of €2.19 billion over the 7-year Programme lifespan. This EU funding will be supplemented by exchequer funding bringing the total allocation to some €4 billion.

The financial allocations for the RDP 2014-2020 period measures are set out in Table 1

Table 1: Financial Allocation by Measure for Ireland's 2014 -2020 RDP

Table 2  shows the annual expenditure  for 2014, 2015 and 2016. It also shows indicative measure level allocations for 2017 based on the allocations to the sub-heads covering the schemes for 2017. The table does not include  information for Measure 19 which is not operated by my Department.

The RDP Regulation is structured according to measures while for the purpose of financial management of national expenditures, we run and implement the RDP measures as schemes. These schemes may extend over more than one RDP measure - for example, the organic farming schemes draw funding from measure 10 and measure 11.