Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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143. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the number of recipients of farm assist payments and the total amount paid in each county in each of the years from 2012 to 2016 in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6583/17]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The information requested by the Deputy in respect of recipients of Farm Assist in each county is detailed in the table.

The breakdown of the moneys paid to recipients is not collated on a county basis by my Department. I am however informed that the total expenditure on Farm Assist in each of the years 2012 to 2015 was approximately €108.2m, €99.2m, €93.6m, €88.4m respectively and the provisional outturn for the scheme in 2016 is €78.8m.

Recipients of Farm Assist by county at 31 December in each of the years 2012 to 2016