Written answers

Tuesday, 7 November 2017

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

TAMS Administration

Photo of Jackie CahillJackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail)
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955. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason underpasses are not included for grant aid under TAMS; his plans to include it under the next tranche of TAMS; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46835/17]

Photo of Michael CreedMichael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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The TAMS II Scheme has been very successful to date in terms of uptake with the number of approvals that have issued to date exceeding 11,500.  All of these approvals represent committed expenditure under the TAMS II measure of the Rural Development Programme 2014-2020. Until such time as these approvals are acted upon or expire the budget for TAMS must include provision for the potential expenditure involved.  A total budget of €395m is available under TAMS II for a suite of seven measures covering a wide range of investments.

Of the applications approved just under 2,500 payment claims have been received to date, representing 21% of approvals. `Payment claims submitted have been paid in over 75% of cases and these continue to be paid on an ongoing basis. However, until such time as the works applied for and approved have been completed and payment claims submitted, payments cannot issue. All participants who have completed approved works are urged to submit their payment claims immediately to facilitate early payment.

Approvals and payments continue to issue on an on- going basis for the comprehensive list of investments already included in the suite of seven existing TAMS measures. The existing investments under the TAMS II Schemes are very comprehensive and there are no plans at present to amend the list of investments available under TAMS to include underpasses.

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