Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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213. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 55 of 13 February 2018, the peak number of active participants in the REPS scheme compared to GLAS. [10811/18]

Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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REPS opened in 1994 and over a period of 12 years, during which the scheme was continuously open for the submission of applications, participation levels peaked at 59,200 in 2006.

The first approvals under GLAS run from 1 October 2015 and over the course of three application windows the RDP target of 50,000 approvals by the end of 2018 was achieved by January 2017, a period of 15 months.