Jackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail)
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565. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons awaiting GLAS payments; the percentage of the total number of persons this figure represents; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22114/17]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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Applications continue to be processed to payment as set out in the tabular form below.

Of the 2,840 cases, my Department has written to 360 applicants who have failed to submit fully completed commonage forms. The Department has also written to 70 other applicants who have failed to return complete information on low emission slurry spreading.  The Department has also been in contact with a further 500 applicants and is working through the remaining cases as quickly as possible.