Niamh Smyth (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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694. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the waiting times for farm assist payments; the number of applications pending by county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42235/17]

Regina Doherty (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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At the end of August there were 7,346 recipients of a farm assist payment.

Data on applications pending and the average time to award for Farm Assist is only available in my Department’s information systems aggregated together with the corresponding data for Jobseeker’s Allowance claims, so that it is not possible to provide the requested disaggregated information for Farm Assist.