Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein)
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1023. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the details of each of the sub sectors of agriculture to which the Common Agriculture Policy 2014 - 2020 is allocated; the associated amounts allocated to each sub sector; the amount of matching funding made available in each of the years 2014 to 2016 and for 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12944/17]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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Funding under the CAP is comprised  of 100% EU funded  Pillar 1 – Basic Payment / Greening / Young Farmers Schemes, and Pillar 2, which are co-funded RDP Schemes. Pillar 1 schemes are not sector specific, being based on the farmers historic entitlements, rather than their current type of farming activity.

As regards Pillar 2, 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.

Generally RDP schemes are  not sector specific. However the Beef Data and Genomics Programme and Animal Welfare Scheme for Sheep  are sector specific.  Their total  (EU and national) allocations for 2015, 2016 and 2017 are set out below.  The EU co funding rate  for the BDGP is 53% and that co funding rate also applies to half the funding for the Animal Welfare Scheme for Sheep.

*Revised allocation post  2015 Supplementary Estimates Process

The individual scheme  allocations for 2018, 2019, and 2020 have not been determined yet as annual scheme allocations will be determined within the context of the estimates process for those years.

The Knowledge Transfer Scheme  and TAMS  also have  sector specific sub–schemes but the sub-allocations are indicative rather than  definitive in so far as they are operated within the same sub-head of the DAFM vote.