John Brassil (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
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533. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline the reason for a continual delay in the processing of TAMS payments; the actions he is taking to eliminate these delays; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21554/17]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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Payment claims submitted under the current Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Schemes (TAMS II) are being processed on an ongoing basis. However, some applications submitted have minor issues that need to be resolved before payment can be processed.  In such cases Department officials are in direct contact with individual farmers to resolve issues and progress claims towards early payment.

A total number of 11,785 applications were made to my Department under the Scheme, of these 8,240 were approved, however only 1,335 payment claims have been received from applicants to date.