Brendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael)
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549. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when decisions will be made on GLAS tier 3 applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5946/17]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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I understand that the Deputy is referring to applications submitted under Tranche 3 of the GLAS Scheme which closed for the submission of applications on the 15 December 2016.

Processing of GLAS Tranche 3 applications is ongoing and to date some 12,400 applications have passed all validations and have been selected into the Scheme. The approval letters for these applications will begin issuing this week. The remaining 1,600 applications require further checks including validation of documents and I expect this work to be completed shortly.