Written answers

Tuesday, 20 February 2018

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

GLAS Data

Photo of James BrowneJames Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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454. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of delayed GLAS payments to persons in County Wexford in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8600/18]

Photo of Michael CreedMichael 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, in approximately 2,700 cases, 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.

Details of GLAS payments to Wexford applicants are as follows:

GLAS 1GLAS 2GLAS 3Total
CountyCasesAdvanceAdvance not paidCasesAdvanceAdvance not paidCasesAdvanceAdvance not paidCasesAdvanceAdvance not paid
Wexford7586609826321053308269391,3291,139190

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