Aindrias Moynihan (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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438. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of persons in County Cork waiting for GLAS payments; the number of part payments issued; and his plans to process the outstanding payments. [8329/18]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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GLAS 2017 advance payments have now issued in over 44,400 cases, representing 95% of all farmers that are eligible for the payment. Payments are continuing every week.

GLAS payments cannot issue until all regulatory requirements are met. Each GLAS payment claim must be put through a suite of checks for each action and where any individual check fails the issues must be investigated and resolved before being cleared for payment.

In addition to the checks outlined above, a number of applicants remain ineligible for payment until they complete the steps they must take before the Department can process their payment. The general issues preventing payments taking place include the non-submission of nutrient management plans, commonage management plans, low emission slurry spreading forms, rare breeds forms and 2017 BPS application issues that remain to be resolved. My Department is communicating with those affected on an ongoing basis.

Details of GLAS payments to Cork applicants are as follows: